SOMETIMES, a pint or a half-pint of blueberries will be a buck or three. It fluctuates. The street vendors are always cheaper. When you figure in the packaging and the cost of getting them here from Peru or Chile by plane, and the truck that took them to the plane, think of how little the people who pick the berries in the vast fields make.
Hi Bill.... if you get a chance, the book, 'Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies' by Seth Holmes is a wonderful (though traumatic and difficult) glimpse into the experience that people and fruit endure. I highly recommend it.
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