But lots of things are mostly water. Fresh fruit juice, wine, meat, humans. They're just not made by adding water. Beer is though. I don't think it should be labelled "water".
I suppose to be fair, whole pressed juices are incredibly expensive. But I think they should be forced to be more upfront about what these "juices" actually are - mostly apple juice powder with a few other fruit powders sprinkled in and then mixed with water to the desired sweetness level.
Then, everything closed and the only thing left was to send it to China. Priced dropped entirely, to the point where it would mostly be considered a net negative. You have to store it before you can send a batch, and that takes a lot space. Not only that, but it has to stay dry. Then, consider you want to have a basic sort already done, because you don't want the whole batch to be paid little because it would be considered the lowest grade. So Bags should be consistent; they also have to be dense enough to avoid taking too much space (typical bags are around 1 cubic meter / 100kg). Most of these operation require quite a lot of very tiring human labor, which also require some skills, a problem pervasive with the sheep industry.
So yes, in the end it's too cheap to produce but too expensive to buy.
One of the problem here is that while yes, you have to shear sheep raised for meat, the wool is going to be of an exceptionally low quality, because (a) you generally aren't raising a wool breed for meat, and (b) you aren't keeping your sheep in a manner that minimised damage to the wool.
We receive a fair bit of free by-product wool from meat herds, the processing cost is roughly double that of wool from a proper wool herd, and the end result is inferior.
The best use of by-product wool is often quality-insensitive bulk applications, like wool pellets for roof insulation, at which point there is very little money in the whole value chain
Not sheep raised for meat, bred to be low wool volume producers, and regularly (two or three times a year) run through a defoliating spray.
See, for example: https://farmtable.com.au/ag-library/ag-business-resources/se...
FWiW, in the actual sheep for wool trade there's still a high demand in China for ultrafine low micron merino wool for modern high end breathable suits. So:
> Then, everything closed and the only thing left was to send it to China.
really depends on the grade and quality of the wool - a lot is low grade rag fibre for stuffing and insulation, some (many tonnes per annum) is for quality tailoring.
Being too bulky to engage in overseas shipping shenanigans probably helps it.
50 years ago, the wool sold for more than the meat.
I can't believe how common this erroneous view is. Sheep reared for wool were bred specifically for the quality of their wool. Those that produce the best wool are not used for their meat. Wool is not a free by-product of anything, it is the product.
>Those that produce the best wool are not used for their meat
You can eat delicious merinos. If anything, you could see their meat as a free by-product. Same caveat applies, meat processing is not cheap.
I think the erroneous view is just how things work unless you look at luxury/high grade market, which obey fundamentally different economics.
you can do this also without any concentrate using regular apple juice
Your hangup on dehydrated juice is weird. Like, yea, they removed all the water from the juice so all you need to do is add water and it ships better and keeps longer....