Why Does a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac?
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Why does a salad cost more than a Big Mac? This infographic show us one part of the reason – that a huge proportion of our food subsidies go to meat. I thought that farming lobby received huge subsidies but their subsidies pale in comparison to the meat and dairy lobby. Only 0.37 percent go to fruits and vegetables. That makes meat and dairy artificially cheap, so we end up consuming more of it than we should.
Similarly, Americans are blasting companies that put corn syrup in food. However, the reason beverage companies don't use sugar is because corn syrup is cheaper than sugar... thanks to the corn subsidies.
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