Opinion of this chart

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[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

The person who made this chart needs to learn the difference between height and volume, for starters.   
Starch is in the category with salt, sugar and and oils on the one side but not on the other. Also, aren't most of the subsidies to the meat and dairy industry indirect through grain/corn that becomes used as animal feed?

[dead0man]

Probably true, and if you vote for Dems or Pubs you are perpetuating/supporting the damaging farm subsidies.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Apart from just how terribly unreadable the chart is (my stats professor would have a fit over this), I would not be surprised to learn that the information it displays is mostly true.

I'm not quite sure I get the politics of the graphic though. I'm not exactly sure why a salad costs more than a Big Mac, but I am sure it's a lot more complicated than simply accounting for the cost of ingredients. Like it or not, salads are practically a niche at fast food restaurants. If you are the kind of person who orders a salad at a place like McDonald's, odds are you would order that salad regardless of price, if only because you are health-concious enough to never order a Big Mac.

Also, I'm not a fan of the way the chart would seem to suggest that the subsidies are misaligned with the Food Guide. I'd suspect it costs much more to to create meat products than it does to grow grains. With that in mind, it makes sense to give more to the cattle farmers that the corn farmers (if you're a supporter of subsidies ).

[fezzyfestoon]

False. Salads are "in", that's why they're so expensive. It's a cultural movement to be a salad eater/skinny housewife. And those dumb bitches will pay out the ass to be "hip". A salad was an afterthought on menus from what I remember of even recent years. Otherwise your charts would account for the extra $3 it costs to put some peasantly chicken on a $6 pile of $1 crops.

[opebo]

Corporations. 

In any business, there is a certain 'minimum charge' for an item, which is covering mostly 'overhead' and profits, and ingredients are not the only or even primary factor.  This is why a bottle of water with a little high-fructose-corn-poison in it is $1.29 in a convenience store (or that's what it cost when I was in the Bad Place last).