This may be the single most frustrating newspaper article about the expenses of “green” eating, since a wonderful point is within arm’s reach yet never gets made. Read the reporter’s total cost for a weekend’s dining, and you’ll be staggered that it came to $125. But then you review the entries and see that she spent $18 for half a bottle of wine, $14 for an unfortunate rabbit, $30 for an equally unfortunate suckling pig, $7 each for two bottles of ale, and $32 for a single meal’s worth of seafood. I never realized reporters made that kind of money.
I’d have no trouble eating top-shelf, local, organic, gourmet vegan food for a weekend and coming in way under $40. So I guess the take-home lesson after analyzing this article is that if you really want to eat green, without busting the bank, it’s easy to do it as a vegan — and impossible to do it if lobsters and rabbits are your thing. Wish the reporter could have made that point in the article. Link.
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