Why does a head of lettuce from the grocery store cost $3 when fast food restaurants can sell you a burger, fries, and apple pie for the same price?
Lettuce goes from farms to the store. Not too much in between.
Fast food goes from farmers, to factory processing, to trucks and trains, to franchise locations where they are assembled and served up to hungry customers.
How can that possibly be cheaper, with the factories, equipment, fuel, and about a gazillion employees in between?Is it right or sensible that fresh food should be cost-prohibitive?
Why isn't everyone asking these questions?
Google "subsidize fast food" and you will only scratch the surface as to the why of it being so cheap. It never has been cheap, we have been paying for it all along. Fast food nation and food inc both touched on this.
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