Why Eatng a Big Mac is Cheapers than eating a salad [Celsias]
Almost 75% of U.S. government subsidies go into meat and dairy production, but less than half a per cent goes into fruit and vegetable production.
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Big Macs, salads and subsidies
Nice little dig by Celsias at the US meat and dairy subsidies. Click to see the all telling figure.
Why Eatng a Big Mac is Cheapers than eating a salad [Celsias]
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Why Eatng a Big Mac is Cheapers than eating a salad [Celsias]
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Actually, it's probably worse than that. The subsidy of < 0.5% probably is negated by the explicit prohibitions against growing fruits and vegetables in the current farm bill. See here for a summary.
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