Why A Salad Costs More Than A Big Mac

BP's 4 basic food groups:

Sugar
Salt
Fat
Grease

 

Not knowing the data source, I know often times a lot of what is considered "meat subsidy" is actually ranchers grazing cattle on public land at very low prices. It's not a subsidy in the traditional sense of taxpayers mailing checks to producers. It's more like taxpayers saying, "We could charge you $100, but we'll only charge you $50, to graze your cow on this hillside."

We could charge those ranchers more, and probably should. But people need protein. They need calcium. The subsidies create a market imbalance, but it's not like it's an enormously harmful imbalance in our diet. We're not really a nation of fatties because we eat way too much beef and milk.

It's the grain subsidies that really bother me. It makes absolutely no sense to subsidize the production of high fructose corn syrup.

 

I resent that!

 

FUCKED. UP.

 

fyi: Salads at fast food joints often times have just as much if not more calories/saturated fats.

 

Fixed

 

http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/nutrition_facts.html

 

My preference is toward skinny women. My wife if 5'3, 110 lbs. BBW don't do much for me.

 

Go [illicit and extremely offensive street slang deleted] yourself.

 

I do believe it would be possible.

 

Street slang!!!!

 

the system works!