Also was just musing about this since we cut a tree for Christmas yesterday.
I was feeling a but guilty harvesting a tree every year, wondering if fake was the way to go.
Reading the article made me wonder if neither choice was a good one.
It does look like "U-Cut" trees are cutting out the middleman(person) and putting money straight into the farmer's pocket. At $65 that's a much healthier profit margin than the $8-$10 they get selling to wholesalers.
And I suppose if there were made-in-the-USA fake trees that too could stimulate the local (U.S.) economy ... but that doesn't appear to be the case.
I was feeling a but guilty harvesting a tree every year, wondering if fake was the way to go.
Reading the article made me wonder if neither choice was a good one.
It does look like "U-Cut" trees are cutting out the middleman(person) and putting money straight into the farmer's pocket. At $65 that's a much healthier profit margin than the $8-$10 they get selling to wholesalers.
And I suppose if there were made-in-the-USA fake trees that too could stimulate the local (U.S.) economy ... but that doesn't appear to be the case.