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Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive?
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Vegan =/= health, salted fries, palm oil and ketchup is all vegan and I doubt you think of it as healthy.
But anyways, only reason healthy food would be cheaper than non healthy one is if there's taxes on the non healthy stuff. Non healthy stuff is sold because it's cheaper or tastier. If they can add the healthy label to sell more they will.
Have a friend that did a masters in psychology which paper was about Biological food. Anything you see with that label gets a price hike. Rarely the on the actual products tested there were feasible differences because biological isn't a well defined concept.
Father of a friend plants biological tomatoes for himself. For his peers, you just need to not add chemicals and treat that plant biologically. He however only accepted produce as biological if the seeds came from a platelet treated as such, so his biological stuff is second generation onwards.
Since the concept isn't clearly defined, it's bs and companies use whatever they can to make a buck.
I suspect you mean “organic”?
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Indeed. My guess is that @AdNecrias@lemmy.pt speaks a germanic language where the English word 'organic' translates to 'biological'
Latin one! And in this context in Portuguese, yeah they do translate to that.
But we still see both labels being used, sometimes in the same product. I'm saying label here because I don't think what companies use the word as and what it actually means aligns.
Oh, yes, I meant no shade at all.
I was now informed by my friend that over here the term biological sometimes refers to more a non-gmo nature of the product, and organic the non use of chemicals. It's still pretty messy with how they used but what she saw defining it tended to that distinction.
It means that, but both labels appear in Portuguese here. Orgânico and biológico.
Given your question I assume in English the term has a more biohazardy connotation?
In English, "biological" is a relatively neutral word when used by itself. It just means "of material caused by life." Organic, in the context of food products, carries the notions of "natural purity" and "without laboratory-made additives/pesticides/fertilizers."
But, as you say, "organic" doesn't really mean that, the US guidelines for what qualifies as "organic" are far looser than most people think, and will vary between different kinds of products. Kind of like how "cage free" eggs are not necessarily any more humane, and could arguably be less humane depending on the farm.