"Sugar's dirt cheap." - not quite true, at least in these parts.
Sugar is trading above six cents US per pound -
tfc-charts.w2d.com
A neighbour just made a sale of some [admittedly unscreened and weedy] topsoil that I piled up for him a few years ago, it went for 8.00Cdn/yard loaded fob his place. I compute that to be .005Cdn/lb [8.0Cdn/1600 lbs/yd (it fluffs up somewhat but it's quite wet, being March on the Wet Coast and all)]. Of course if you were going to sell it as a contract on Comex you'd have to add delivery, storage, and commissions, but still i don't think you would obtain today the price of sugar, especially considering the exchange rate differential. The inbred cultural prejudice for sugar as a sweetener may be a factor here, people seem to completely ignore the fact that dirt grows better roses.
Now stevia - stevia sells for 5.95, 6.95, 7.95 [one of those, i forget which] per 30 gram bag, in my friend's health food store. It is, however, supplied by a reputable source.
And pure. .... but hey, that's about $264,783Cdn/yard [assuming that it's dry] ... guess what i'm gonna grow my roses in. |
