Supermarket prices
Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (10:03): To follow up – vegans, I have heard you, and I will never complain about the cost of Danish feta again. Vegan feta is $45 a kilogram, double that of dairy-based cheese, and it is also a very tasty cheese. At a time when everyone is struggling with the cost of groceries it does seem pretty unfair that those who are choosing to stick to a plant-based diet for animal welfare or environmental reasons, for example, should be hit with an even bigger price shock. And it is not just the cheese. If you need oat milk for your lattes, if that is what you are drinking, it is two or three times the price of milk from a cow. It is steep to buy these products at the supermarkets. Plant-based products should be more affordable, because whether we are vegan or not we should be all be aiming to eat more of the good green stuff for our health, for the animals and for the planet. Coles and Woolworths are price gouging everyone, and tbh it is even worse if you are vegan.