Green & Red Peppers
Boston Globe:
“As people’s wealth increases, so does their standard of living, and people with money become more concerned about their mortality and start paying attention to their health,” said 50-year-old Huang, who has eaten organic food all his life.
“People with little money don’t care about such things.”
More recently, eating healthy has become [...]

Chinese Chestnut
BBC News:
Although affluent shoppers bought roughly the same amount of produce last year, Mintel said sales were rising among lower-income consumers.
Fruit and vegetables had sales of £442m this year, making up 37% of the total market.
But the biggest rise is in meat and poultry sales - up nearly 150% between 2000 and 2005. An [...]

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AMonline:
The organic industry is set to enjoy good growth over the next twenty years, according to a new study by the nation’s Organic Trade Association (OTA), which forecasts that by 2025 organic products will be considered “commonplace.”
The findings, published last week, are based on predictions by industry research organizations, including the [...]

Rocky Mountain News
The Austin, Texas-based organic and natural foods retail powerhouse will open its biggest store to date in Colorado on Wednesday, this time seducing food lovers with 55,000 square feet of retail space at the Belmar complex on Wadsworth Boulevard.
“Every department (in the store) is bigger than the others in Colorado,” said Scott Simons, [...]

Clarion-Ledger:
Father and son, the Hafners are in the process of converting their Guthrie County, Iowa, crop land and pasture ground to organic production. They also have converted their 200-head beef cow-calf herd to organic grass-fed production.
Exploding consumer demand for organic food is outstripping supplies of organic grain, dairy products and other commodities.
Growing demand, along with [...]

How could that have happened in the time when “organic style” living is so popular. More and more people are making a conscious effort to eat more organic foods. All the organic foods focus markets like Wholefoods and Trader Joe’s are doing so well. You would people would be reading more organic [...]

Food Navigator
Demand for organic foods has increased by almost 17 percent over the past year, according to a new report that reveals how Americans are increasingly turning to organic alternatives in an effort to improve their diet.
The latest survey commissioned by leading organic supermarket Whole Foods Market reveals that nearly two thirds of the nation’s [...]