{"id":1665,"date":"2014-07-25T07:51:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2014-07-25T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:54:58","slug":"conventional-vs-organic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2014\/07\/25\/conventional-vs-organic\/","title":{"rendered":"Conventional vs. Organic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the week of July 21, 2014, here&#8217;s a four-city comparison of conventional and certified organic carrot prices (premium quality,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\">24&#215;2#) from <a title=\"Rodale Organic Price Report\" href=\"http:\/\/rodaleinstitute.org\/farm\/organic-price-report-tool\/\">Rodale<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 300px;width: 600px\" width=\"778\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #333333\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #333333\">Organic<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Conventional<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #333333\">Boston<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #333333\">$ 41.50\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td>$ 20.00<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Los Angeles<\/td>\n<td>$ 40.75<\/td>\n<td>$ 15.50<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Philadelphia<\/td>\n<td>$ 41.50<\/td>\n<td>$ 18.00<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>San Francisco<\/td>\n<td>$ 35.00<\/td>\n<td>$ 18.50<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The biggest gap is in Los Angeles, which has the lowest conventional carrot prices. \u00a0The smallest gap is in San Francisco, which has the lowest organic carrot prices. \u00a0Why, I wonder, are conventional carrots $2\/unit more in Boston than Philadelphia?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the week of July 21, 2014, here&#8217;s a four-city comparison of conventional and certified organic carrot prices (premium quality,\u00a024&#215;2#) from Rodale: \u00a0 Organic Conventional Boston $ 41.50\u00a0 $ 20.00 Los Angeles $ 40.75 $ 15.50 Philadelphia $ 41.50 $ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2014\/07\/25\/conventional-vs-organic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-qR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}