• Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    3 天前

    Same problem as found in fruits and vegetables, which is to say that there is none and sell it to me for 1/2 price. Gimme, gimme, gimme that cheap bread.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      3 天前

      I feel really bad for fruits and vegetables that are “ugly”. It doesn’t taste different and you could use them as juice or pickling. But regardless of what you use them for, farmers can’t get the same price for “uglies” as they can with “beautiful” fruits and vegetables. The labor is the same and the overall costs to them are the same. They just look different.

      So they have to jack up the prices on “pretty” and lower the price on “uglies”.

      • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        3 天前

        Yeah, that really sucks for farmers. Sometimes it’s a case of variance based on genetic foibles of specific plant varieties, but I’ve been told that it’s sometimes a result of the plant’s reaction to some kind of pathogen (mold, bacteria, fungus, etc.). Some of them just grow into weird shapes despite being 100% A-OK.

        • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 天前

          That makes good sense. Best I had before your pig farming idea was that they really loved ducks, or had to make 10,000 sandwiches on a short timeline.