Prices are based on yield/farmer's cost of living. In other words if a farmer uses some sort of chemical yield enhancer, he gets more yield and so to earn an appropriate amount of money to live on a farmer who doesn't use the enhancing chemicals needs to make more per item. So each individual item costs more. The person must also be rewarded for this extra effort to be encouraged to continue, otherwise, he would just go the easy route.
This is an example of how messed up modern society is. No farmer should be forced, by dictates of capitalism and the greed of "rulers", to use anything more than what is naturally available, to be able to live well. Everyone should have natural foods available to them to the extent they are needed, not chemical grown crap.
That they are forced to ask higher prices has nothing to do with them or their field of occupation. Other than not acting out and not forcing morons with their idiotic ideas out of rulership, because they are threatened by previously made up laws and fines and arrests and such.
My point is that there are "food" items, heavily processed ones, that are far cheaper than the raw and unprocessed variants, I have personally seen this (although don't remember what items specifically).
In this case, the higher numbers would be more processed than the lower ones. The point is that the more something is processed the more thought and effort is put into it and so the more it should cost.
It takes a lot of thought and effort to grow a food without some form of chemistry involved. That is why the chemistry sets were invented in the first place.
It takes a lot of thought if you think it does, or you don't know what you should be doing. Effort it takes about as much in both cases.
You cannot blame the farmer. You can only blame yourself. Untill you grow the balls to go out and farm yourself, you are partly to blame.
Depends on the farmer.
Blame myself for something I am not responsible for? Why would I? Did I set matters the way they are presently, do I keep them?
Partly to blame? While I have nothing to do with it? Uhm... no. I am not to blame even the tiniest bit.
If I were a farmer I wouldn't be to blame for anything. Because I don't set the rules and ways everyone seems so content to follow, unfortunately.
I'll do my best against idiocies ruling humanity but I alone can change nothing.