Categorías: Todo - costs - ingredients - packaging - sugar

por Brittany Pliler hace 12 años

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ONE HAMBURGER

The creation of a hamburger involves numerous hidden costs that go beyond the $1.09 price tag at a fast-food restaurant. Each ingredient, such as tomatoes, sugar, and flour, requires cultivation, harvesting, processing, transportation, and packaging.

ONE HAMBURGER

The Hidden Costs of a Hamburger

This is a map of all the costs we could come up with that were related to the creation of a hamburger! Although there are no numbers associated with each piece, it is clear to see the average $1.09 one pays at a local McDonalds may not cover all the costs that are incurred from that one sandwhich!

So what's your guess?

Subtopic

Ketchup

Bottle
Packets
Muscutine, IA

Ingredients:

Tomato from concentrate, distilled vinegar, sugar, salt, onion powder, spice, natural flavoring.


Each ingredient needs to be grown, processed, transported and packaged.

Onion
Spices
Vinegar
Tomato

Central Valley, CA

Lettuce

Ingerdients
none
onsite
Grown
Arizona
California

Bread

Semi-Trailer
Packaging/Processing
St Paul, MN
Ingredients

Ingredients:

Flour, yeast, water, sugar, salt


Each ingredient needs to be grown, processed, transported and packaged.

Salt
Sugar

When you have a sip of your soda to wash down that burger you are washing down SUGAR with more SUGAR!


Sugar is a main ingredient in a hamburger, it is in ketchup and the bun!

Yeast
Flour

Hamburger Patty

Political

Local Growers

Organic vs Non-Organic

Funding

Taxes

Subsidies

Laws
Environment
Pollution

Habitat Destruction

Air

Waste

Poison

Emissions

Green House Effect

Fuel

Transportation

Production

Human
Farmer

Materials

Money

Time

Consumer

Medical Bills

Health Problems

Cure Research

Price plus tax

Distributors

Media

Packing

Labor

Animals
Habitat

Water

Land

Welfare

Cruelty

PETA

Hormones

Antibiotics

Raising Costs

Health

Housing

Food