Why a salad costs more than a Big Mac.

[toothdust]

Check out this image of the food pyramid and a farm subsidy pyramid:

http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm07autumn/images/pyramid.jpg

Quite the discrepancy I would say. I went to a lecture by author and food policy speaker Marion Nestle the other night, and she showed this in a slide. I was appalled. I knew subsidies were outrageous, but the image really hit it home. The reason for this slide was due to the discrepancy of the price of a dollar burger and a salad at McDonald's, and why the price was so inverted. Six (6) burgers for the price of one salad (5.99 I believe her number was).

What we need is to redraft a farm bill to balance out these subsidies, and to include more funding towards organic agriculture of course.

[mugaliens]

That's insane!

It certainly explains why beef, which requires ten times as much land to produce x amount of calories and nutrition than is required for the same amount of calories and nutrition for vegetable matter, doesn't cost 10 times as much as the vegetable matter, but instead, actually less.

[tom]

I am also getting concerned that it is hard to find real food any more.

If my grandmother didnt have the food available to her then I dont consider it food.

The first priority for food seems to be its shelf life.