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“ANYBODY SEEN WHAT THEY CHARGE FOR ARUGULA?”
Barack Obama’s desperate plea for arugula justice seems to have prompted questions from organic Americans:
Rising prices for organic groceries are prompting some consumers to question their devotion to food produced without pesticides, chemical fertilizers or antibiotics. In some parts of the country, a loaf of organic bread can cost $4.50, a pound of pasta has hit $3, and organic milk is closing in on $7 a gallon.
Seven dollars a gallon? Have we gone beyond the point of peak milk?
UPDATE. MoveOn.org was founded in order to defend Bill Clinton during his impeachment. But now Hillary Clinton wishes they would, well, move the hell on themselves:
On a tape released by the Huffington Post, Clinton bashes MoveOn.org and the Democratic Party’s “activist base” for “intimidating” her supporters.
“We have been less successful in caucusing because it brings out the activist base of the party,” Clinton says on the muffled audio recording. “You know, MoveOn.org didn’t want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that’s what we’re dealing with, and they turnout in great numbers and, um, they are very driven in their view of our positions. And it’s primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don’t agree with them. They know I don’t agree with them. Though they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me.”
I was really stunned at the price of milk in Southern California when I was there a while back. It was already at the $6 mark per gallon. I pay 70 cents a litre in Costa Rica.
Posted by David Gillies on 2008 04 18 at 02:19 PM • permalinkObama (channeling William Jennings Bryan): You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of arugula!
Have we gone beyond the point of peak milk?
Sounds like it’s time for Cow Hour! During Cow Hour, I pledge to substitute beer for milk (could make for some funny-tasting pancakes, though; better make it after breakfast).Gula - Babylonian goddess
Gullah - people and language of the Georgia Sea Islands
Don’t thank me!
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2008 04 18 at 03:44 PM • permalinkHmmmm.
“Do you know how hard it is to rhyme ‘arugula’?”
Well heck. You’re right!
On the other hand if I search on “Hussein” I get:
The 10 Syllable rhyme: “superficial middle cerebral vein”
We gots a winna!
Posted by memomachine on 2008 04 18 at 03:49 PM • permalink#4 - Lyle
Would that we were talking about Bill Clinton - Caligula is available as a reasonable rhyme (not perfect, but workable). But Barry seems to stay away from the ladies outside of his marriage.Posted by Infidel Librarian on 2008 04 18 at 03:57 PM • permalink“But Barry seems to stay away from the ladies outside of his marriage.” He’d better. Have you seen her? She’s a real Amazon, six feet tall and a muscular 160 lbs. She would break him in half.
The solution to $7 a gallon milk? Let them eat cake.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2008 04 18 at 04:13 PM • permalinkThe irony is that certain chemical pesticides are permitted on organic produce. That plus the risks of salmonella poisoning and the blatant rip-off prices is enough to deter any sensible person.
Posted by walterplinge on 2008 04 18 at 05:24 PM • permalinkLettuce give the guy a break. The high prices of these organic foods are causing the baby greens who love them to cry into their bibs while they watch “The Romaines of the Day” .
No wonder they support so much mesclun immigration.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 04 18 at 05:38 PM • permalinkIf it is true that food is for thought, people who buy organic produce are starving.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 18 at 06:17 PM • permalinkMargos : The article made perfect sense up to this bit:
More cows being milked means more cows to feed, and therefore more land must be cultivated with fossil-fuel-burning tractors. More cows means many more tons of manure produced, and more methane, a greenhouse gas, released into the atmosphere.
Back to the same old theme. Can’t be bothered reading further.
Wait, lemme get this straight… A more human work intensive process RAISES the price of a product significantly? You could bowl me over with a feather!
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go take a dump in my certified organic wheat field so I can have some yuppies pay me $22 a bushel to eat my shit.
The Miami Herald. Motto? “When you can’t find a copy of the New York Times.”
#16 walterplinge. The risks of salmonella poisoning have become a significant factor in recent years. For this reason, some Macadamia nut processors require growers to sign a declaration that they have NOT used organic fertilisers under the trees for six months prior to harvest. The nuts are harvested from the ground, and the risk of salmonella infection is exacerbated by the presence of organic fertilisers such as chook poo.
Hey! Arugula, Arugula, Arugula, she take me money and run Venezuela.
Hava Arugula, hava Arugula
Hava Arugula venis’ mechaPosted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 18 at 09:57 PM • permalink#1, Harry, Bottled water has always been more expensive than petrol here in WOZ. But the good folks from ‘peak oil’ are doing their best to close the gap I can assure you…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 04 18 at 10:01 PM • permalinkWhoa, hang on, arugula is also know as eruca sativa. Could lefties love of this lettuce have anything to do with their love of weed?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 04 18 at 10:09 PM • permalinkClinton bashes MoveOn.org
What Hillary should do is a couple of knees to this smart Mo’Fo’s crotch.
Watch the slick bird he shoots….has to be intentional, the smirk and reaction of his cult members.
Apologies to John Updike:
I walk to the organic market,
It gives me a super high,
An organic lot is where I park it,
And organic suds are what I buy.Organic salesmen sell me tonic—
Organic-Tone-O, for Relief.
The claims they make are ‘organic’
It is in harmony with my beliefsConservative men and women
Call me a dill—me,
Who so eagerly eats food grown
Certified OrganicallyNo superphosphate fed foods feed me;
Organic service keeps me new,
Who would dare to deceive me,
I’ll stick to ‘organic’ like flies to pooI know that that bastard Blair hi-jacked his own post in the early innings. But, I think it does demonstrate why Hillary! is the preferable Donkocrat(ic) candidate in the presidential election, instead of Obamicide. At least she is a crude opportunist, like LBJ, as opposed to an undercover Weather Undergrounder.
Posted by Son of a Pig and a Monkey on 2008 04 18 at 11:11 PM • permalinkBut now Hillary Clinton wishes they would, well, move the hell on themselves:
There was a young lady from Niger,
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger.
She returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on th[removed]nullo()
quotee face of the tiger.Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 18 at 11:45 PM • permalinkThere was a young lady from Niger,
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger.
She returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tigerI have no idea what that just was.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 18 at 11:46 PM • permalinkMoveOn.org isn’t moving on? Well, color me surprised!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 19 at 12:03 AM • permalinkOn the flipside, I would have thought that higher prices would be praised, since it puts more income in the pockets of farmers.
How often do we hear moaning from the left about how little farmers get paid? Now the buggers are raking it in, and all the left can do is complain!
Minds - make them up!
One might also think it is doubly wonderful if some of those farmers are in the Third World.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 19 at 12:07 AM • permalink#38
Well, I find that progressives generally don’t progress.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 04 19 at 12:31 AM • permalinkA working class man sat under a Coolibah,
Deploring the price of Whole Foods’ arugula,
He noticed the clouds became overly cumula,
And escaped in his Rolls, playing Bells, (somewhat) TubularPosted by AlburyShifton on 2008 04 19 at 03:32 AM • permalink#39 mr creosote, what makes you think higher prices for organic produce puts more income in the pockets of farmers?
Organic food costs more because of reduced crop sizes and increased production costs.
Free-range eggs are a great example of how that happens.
Two or three years ago, encroaching residential development and new green regulations forced the end to my use of agricultural chemicals in my orchard. For my first season as an “organic” farmer, my crop size was reduced by bug damage to 0.035% of the previous year’s crop.
For my second year without chemicals, the crop size was zero and I have ceased farming.#43 - good thing I am well padded then. I will be the last to starve to death.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 19 at 03:44 AM • permalink#45—The Democratic Party already supports pedophiles. Nancy Pelosi has given testimonial dinners for the founder of the North American Man-Boy Love Association and blocked legislation increasing the penalties for child molestation, as well as taken contributions from the ACLU lawyer representing NAMBLA in court.
And Hillary took $150,000 from a registered sex offender in NYC who majored in underage prostitutes, and who currently has a 300-woman class-action lawsuit pending against him from his employees.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 19 at 02:34 PM • permalink
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Not just milk, but water itself, kidnapped from mountain springs and jailed in convenient plastic bottles, has now equalled the price of gasoline in California.