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| The Real Cost of a HamburgerThe Ecological Consequences of Welfare Ranching
Wuerthner, Georgehttp://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/09/the-real-cost-of-a-hamburger/ 
 Publisher:  Counterpunch
 Date Written:  09/05/2014
 Year Published:  2014
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 Do you know what a Big Mac costs? If you say $2.50 or whatever the current price posted at the McDonalds restaurant may be, you are vastly under-estimating the real price. Thats because $2.50 does not reflect the genuine cost of production. Every hamburger price tag should include a calculation of animal suffering, human health costs, economic and ecological subsidies. None of these bona fide costs is included in the price one pays for a hamburger (or other meats eaten by consumers for that matter).
 
 
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