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The Real Cost of a Hamburger The Ecological Consequences of Welfare Ranching
Wuerthner, George http://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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