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Why Does A Salad Cost More Than A Big Mac?
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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 940745" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>There is an interesting documentary available to Amazon Prime members titled "King Corn", and it is about these two guys fresh out of college discover that the carbon in their bodies is the same carbon one would find in an ear of corn so they go off trying to figure out why. They get a farmer in Iowa to allow them to plant one acre of corn, and grow it themselves and they follow the corn to see what becomes of it. When they are doing the math of what their profit or loss is they discover that they actually lost money on that acre of corn when you took in all the costs like land, seed, fertilizer, equipment rental, etc. but when the government subsidies were figured in is when the profit is produced. All these corn farmers in Iowa would be bankrupt if it weren't for the subsidies they get paid by the government to basically overproduce a crop to keep the price of it as low as possible. I highly recommend watching it if you get a chance as its very interesting how corn makes up a significant part of our food economy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 940745, member: 249"] There is an interesting documentary available to Amazon Prime members titled "King Corn", and it is about these two guys fresh out of college discover that the carbon in their bodies is the same carbon one would find in an ear of corn so they go off trying to figure out why. They get a farmer in Iowa to allow them to plant one acre of corn, and grow it themselves and they follow the corn to see what becomes of it. When they are doing the math of what their profit or loss is they discover that they actually lost money on that acre of corn when you took in all the costs like land, seed, fertilizer, equipment rental, etc. but when the government subsidies were figured in is when the profit is produced. All these corn farmers in Iowa would be bankrupt if it weren't for the subsidies they get paid by the government to basically overproduce a crop to keep the price of it as low as possible. I highly recommend watching it if you get a chance as its very interesting how corn makes up a significant part of our food economy. [/QUOTE]
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