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So I goto the supermarket Sunday morning.

Apples (all grown domestically) range from $1.99 to $3.49/lb.

Bananas (all foreign) sell for $0.59/lb.

Do we subsidize apple farmers? Cost to grow fruit greater in America vs elsewhere? What gives?

Your comparison is apples and oranges.

Apples are grown by people from Washington. How will they afford Google Glass, a gluten-free diet, and other hipster douchebaggery if we pay them like Guatemalans?

93henfan wrote:Apples are grown by people from Washington. How will they afford Google Glass, a gluten-free diet, and other hipster douchebaggery if we pay them like Guatemalans?

Weed. You forget to mention how they will afford weed.

Ibanez wrote:

93henfan wrote:Apples are grown by people from Washington. How will they afford Google Glass, a gluten-free diet, and other hipster douchebaggery if we pay them like Guatemalans?

Weed. You forget to mention how they will afford weed.

That can be placed under the hipster douchebaggery umbrella.

93henfan wrote:Apples are grown by people from Washington. How will they afford Google Glass, a gluten-free diet, and other hipster douchebaggery if we pay them like Guatemalans?

They do pay the people who harvest them like Guatemalans, because they are Guatemalans, and Mexicans. You really think a hipster from Seattle would last a day in the apple orchards?

Grizalltheway wrote:

93henfan wrote:Apples are grown by people from Washington. How will they afford Google Glass, a gluten-free diet, and other hipster douchebaggery if we pay them like Guatemalans?

They do pay the people who harvest them like Guatemalans, because they are Guatemalans, and Mexicans. You really think a hipster from Seattle would last a day in the apple orchards?

No. I saw how long Morgan Spurlock lasted.

93henfan wrote:

Ibanez wrote: Weed. You forget to mention how they will afford weed.

That can be placed under the hipster douchebaggery umbrella.

All of these.

Guats

bluehenbillk wrote:So I goto the supermarket Sunday morning.

Apples (all grown domestically) range from $1.99 to $3.49/lb.

Bananas (all foreign) sell for $0.59/lb.

Do we subsidize apple farmers? Cost to grow fruit greater in America vs elsewhere? What gives?

Apples are not in season. Bananas are. The apples you are eating now were harvested in October.

Bananas are also much easier to grow/harvest.

dbackjon wrote:

bluehenbillk wrote:So I goto the supermarket Sunday morning.

Apples (all grown domestically) range from $1.99 to $3.49/lb.

Bananas (all foreign) sell for $0.59/lb.

Do we subsidize apple farmers? Cost to grow fruit greater in America vs elsewhere? What gives?

Apples are not in season. Bananas are. The apples you are eating now were harvested in October.

Bananas are also much easier to grow/harvest.

Apples are always a lot more expensive than bananas are. May be a good reason for this but just wanted to let you know.

dbackjon wrote:

bluehenbillk wrote:So I goto the supermarket Sunday morning.

Apples (all grown domestically) range from $1.99 to $3.49/lb.

Bananas (all foreign) sell for $0.59/lb.

Do we subsidize apple farmers? Cost to grow fruit greater in America vs elsewhere? What gives?

Apples are not in season. Bananas are. The apples you are eating now were harvested in October.

Bananas are also much easier to grow/harvest.

Fruitist.

tribe_pride wrote:

dbackjon wrote:

Apples are not in season. Bananas are. The apples you are eating now were harvested in October.

Bananas are also much easier to grow/harvest.

Apples are always a lot more expensive than bananas are. May be a good reason for this but just wanted to let you know.

hence the second part of my post