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[sidsmom]

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@Cakers3 wrote:

Anyone who thinks our food industry is NOT CONTROLLED by powerful conglomerates better think again.

Just sayin'.

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I t.h.i.n.k everyone know that.

Just an example of what American Diabetes Association, American Cancer Society and American Heart Association is serving up as 'good for you.'

A conventional stick of celery is & always will be better than KFC.

[Cakers3]

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@sidsmom wrote:

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@Cakers3 wrote:

Anyone who thinks our food industry is NOT CONTROLLED by powerful conglomerates better think again.

Just sayin'.

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I t.h.i.n.k everyone know that.

Just an example of what American Diabetes Association, American Cancer Society and American Heart Association is serving up as 'good for you.'

A conventional stick of celery is & always will be better than KFC.

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@sidsmom  I'm referring to the food industry as in farming-how our food is produced.   Not KFC et al. 

Those companies are producing life damaging products because they are buying life damaging products to begin with.

[CelticCrafter]

I wish you could buy celery by the piece!

[Moonchilde]

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@chrystaltree wrote:

The alternative is not eating celery.  If you can afford it, go for it.  I read that the prices for all our CA grown produce are going to shoot through the roof, prices will be riculously high because the farmers don't have the Mexican labor that they depend on, much of their crops will rot on th vines this year because there's no one to pick it.  $3 for celery might just be a dream price in few months.

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I drove past multiple fields yesterday being picked. I don't know where the "farmers don't have the (Mexican) labor" comes from, but it isn't true. If anything raises the price of Western produce this year it will be the February floods and storms. I live virtually in the middle of "America's Salad Bowl/The Salad Bowl of the World" and there ain't no pickin' problems that I've seen - or heard in any local media. There is definitely NO food "rotting in the fields because there's no one to pick it." Completely false. I live smack dab in the middle of it. There is no issue.

[Cakers3]

@CelticCrafter  One of our markets does sell single stalks of celery.  Sometimes it's cheaper, sometimes not.

[chlema]

@Marp - The celery at my supermarket is - and has been for quite awhile $3.98!  As much as I like to use it in my salads that is just too much for my budget :-(

[catwhisperer]

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@CelticCrafter wrote:

I wish you could buy celery by the piece!

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@CelticCrafter...I have seen this in a couple stores, and it's perfect for me!

[Cakers3]

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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@chrystaltree wrote:

The alternative is not eating celery.  If you can afford it, go for it.  I read that the prices for all our CA grown produce are going to shoot through the roof, prices will be riculously high because the farmers don't have the Mexican labor that they depend on, much of their crops will rot on th vines this year because there's no one to pick it.  $3 for celery might just be a dream price in few months.

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I drove past multiple fields yesterday being picked. I don't know where the "farmers don't have the (Mexican) labor" comes from, but it isn't true. If anything raises the price of Western produce this year it will be the February floods and storms. I live virtually in the middle of "America's Salad Bowl/The Salad Bowl of the World" and there ain't no pickin' problems that I've seen - or heard in any local media. There is definitely NO food "rotting in the fields because there's no one to pick it." Completely false. I live smack dab in the middle of it. There is no issue.

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@Moonchilde  CNN reported that there is "food rotting in the fields".    The LA TImes has also commented on the shortage of labor being reported by farmers in CA.

You could not possibly have seen every farm field in the state.

Unless the media is not telling the truth your post is only valid in terms of the floods and storms.   And drought.

[SilleeMee]

I will not buy non-organic carrots. My dog won't even eat them either. Worst tasting things ever. I don't eat celery.

[CLEM]

@Marp  I don't buy celery very often because the bunches are just too big.  But I have paid over $3.00 for a while; however I have to say this is from a convenience store.  Have to check out prices at Trader Joe's.