Fast Food: The Real Cost of a Hamburger
By Erika Freeman, "Is Your Burger Really That Cheap?," March/April 2010
The hidden price of America’s love of fast-food.
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A McDonald’s Big Mac costs about $3.50, but Raj Patel, author of the newly released The Value of Nothing (Macmillan, 2010), says society pays a much higher price. Tolls on the environment, on taxpayers and on public health give the burger a price tag that’s way out of our budget.
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