lowell@cybergate.com writes:
>I suggest organic cotton (Is there any other type of cotton?) growers will
>have their best crop ever. Their product will be unacceptable to a
>"niche" market with wholly unreasonable limitations placed on their
>growers.
How can these limitations be unreasonable if I am willing to pay for
their complying with certain cultural restrictions and they are willing
to do the work and sell me the product? Naturally the market price
for "organic" cotton is higher than that for conventionally grown
cotton, which these growers depend upon and the customer is willing
to support.
LSM:
>> Meanwhile, I have been trying to source organic cotton products.
>> Maybe this is the reason it is so hard to find.
Lowell:
>No organic cotton is hard to find because it production does not maximize
>profits, which, like it or not, is the core of the american way of life.
LM:
??? "like it or not" ?? Was that supposed to mean something?
Raising my kids doesn't maximize profits either, yet millions of
people manage to find that occupation consistent with the American
way of life. When you're making a good living and find it
personally satisfying, it is not necessarily true that everybody will
trade in the satisfaction for another dollar.
Look, clothing from "Nordstrom's" costs plenty more than clothing
from "Walmart," yet they BOTH manage to exist and be profitable, due
to a different set of customers. If the organic cotton growers were
not making money with their product, I don't suppose they would be
objecting to having it destroyed!
lsm
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