Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive?
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoIt’s not rudimentary, it’s a complex system reduced to a few sentences.
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Vegan patties have been around forever.
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There aren’t significantly more barriers to entry for food products than other industries.
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Yes vendors want high prices, but that applies to any product, not only vegan products.
The answer is, as everyone else has pointed out, economies of scale. There’s a larger market with more participants producing more beef burgers than there are vegan patties.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Economies of scale affects the costs to the manufacturer. Competition/demand affect the price to the consumer.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Correct. That’s precisely why producers of meat patties can still be profitable at a much lower price point.