Great chart from Good Medicine (via the Atlantic) comparing the cost of a Big Mac to a salad. Why does rabbit food cost more than Angus Prime?
Subsidies
If you ever wonder why stuff we don't like happens so much, sometimes the answer is that we're paying people to do the wrong thing.
Whether it's pollution, obesity or sprawl, there are ill-conceived incentives and subsidies that drive much of the activity we want to prevent.
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