You don’t eat the hamburger at McDonalds because it’s a dollar: It’s a dollar to get you to eat it.

Posted November 5th, 2009 by Michael Nystrom

Farms, Hamburgers, and “Free” Enterprise
by Robert Singer / November 4th, 2009

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McDonalds in the 1950s made a profit by selling a product for less than the competition, but a not-so-invisible hand produced cheap calories in great abundance so Ray “Crock” could sell a cheeseburger, fries and a large Coke for a price equal to less than an hour of labor at the minimum wage — and still make a profit. [2]

How did we get a food system that produced what should be a $35 hamburger downwardly manipulated to $1? [3]

“Taxpayer subsidies basically underwrite cheap grain, and that’s what the factory-farming system for meat is entirely dependent on,” Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist in the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). [4]

In other words, the Scoundrels behind the Federal Reserve, Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb and JP Morgan Chase, underwrite cheap grain and the factory-farming system for meat, so you can get a hamburger for a dollar.

Our current food system—characterized by monocultures of corn and soy in the field and cheap calories of fat, sugar and feedlot meat on the table—is not the product of any free market but rather the result of a specific set of governmental and monetary policies (from those Scoundrels at the Fed) and the free gift of fossil fuels from the world’s richest man in history and another founding member of the Federal Reserve, John D. Rockefeller.
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The whole thing is well worth reading.

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An hamburger at McDonalds in

On November 6th, 2009 kevinz says:

An hamburger at McDonalds in the States is 1$ ??
Those little hamburgers ?

in 48 of the 50, yeah.

On November 6th, 2009 TargeT says:

in 48 of the 50, yeah.

remember the saying "if its too good to be true, it probably is"

this saying applies here.

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato

Always an honor to be on Daily Paul

On November 5th, 2009 rds2301 says:

Thank you Michael for posting my work.

The comments are great, could I add my 99 cents?

TargeT gets it when he writes: "on this topic you CAN vote 3 times a DAY! Buy local, Buy organic, Buy raw foods when ever possible" because it is one of the few things we have control of in our lives really makes a difference."

But what I was hoping to communicate in this article (actually in all of my articles) is that

"The beneficiaries of this type of manipulation are the consumers because corporations can sell their products affordably and still make a profit... and

The huddled masses should be thanking those scoundrels at the Federal Reserve for 60 years of downward manipulating the price of commodities: It resulted in unprecedented prosperity, but don’t forget to blame them because the American dream was an environmental nightmare for the planet"

I think you will be interested in Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité – Providence, Miracle or What Really Happened, http://www.marketoracle.c... (link is to the Marketoracle financial website)

I'm going to have to

On November 5th, 2009 TargeT says:

I'm going to have to disagree with you on the environment part.

YES, we can do better, is it the end of the world though? hell no! don't be so arrogant, we are a tiny spec on the face of this vast planet, while we can do damage to locations, which should be highly discouraged, we are NOT damaging the planet as a whole, or even really effecting it much. man influenced climate change is a myth and always has been based of junk science and fear mongering to further dark agenda's.

your closing sentence should have been written more along these lines:

When the government intervenes (for example: subsidizing corn to enable farmers to produce at a loss) the unintended consequences are always horrific and damaging, let the FREE MARKET be FREE! and restrict the government to its constitutionally defined boundaries.

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato

unintended consequences?

On November 6th, 2009 BlueEagle says:

Why do you think they are unintended consequences vs. intended consequences?

trying to keep a positive

On November 6th, 2009 TargeT says:

trying to keep a positive mind set :P

though I do agree there sure is a lot of supporting info that leads one to question if these are planned or not.

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato

Unintended consequences: Unlikely

On November 6th, 2009 rds2301 says:

21 Jan 2009 - Dem Bones is Connected To De Debt Bone (6386 Reads)

http://www.marketoracle.c...

I just watched " FOOD INC "

On November 5th, 2009 TargeT says:

I just watched " FOOD INC " lastnight, great documentary that moves along the same lines as this.

our food is CRAP, 90% of the stuff in the store is corn based, the meat is grown off corn feed (un natural, and un healthy for the animals, which can't be good for us) GMO seeds and animals, its slowly changing however and the key is this:

on this topic you CAN vote 3 times a DAY! Buy local, Buy organic, Buy raw foods when ever possible (yeah, you'll actualy have to cook / prepare on your own, i know it's a pain with these busy lifes)

VOTE FOR GOOD FOOD! (and watch that movie)

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato