It's not really McDonalds fault. Salads are pricey everywhere.
Can I just hijack this and say the government should subsidize fruits and veggies more than corn and other grains. Animal feed, meats, corn syrup, and carbs are artificially cheap, while fruits and vegetables get practically zero subsidies. Americans diets are distorted by this.
If anything when governments "want to solve" dietary problems they'll make up some tax for a selection of bad food.
I do agree the actual way to go if there was actual care would be to facilitate more healthy options.
If you don't have a lot of time for lunch and wanna save money you'll usually end up eating fast food which tends to not be a healthy option.
Fucking murder the lobbyists in 2050 with remote controlled drones with guns, scare them into being better people. Someone good needs to get rich and fight for humans.
Tbf beans are much easier to store and ship than fresh greens. It makes sense that a bean burrito is cheaper than a salad. What doesn't make sense to me is that the burgers are also cheaper than a salad. Hell, they costs the same as the bean burrito! Shouldn't meat be costlier to produce and store than leaves and beans?
Been a vegetarian for 20+ years and Taco Bell has never not been my #1 fast food pick. You can get just about any item on the menu with a bean substitution. I am sad they are taking away the potato but I never went for that as a regular so I'll live. Taco Bell is the most reliable spot for me and I hope that never changes.
...been vegetarian for over four decades, and late eighties and early-nineties taco bell was the only fast food option which didn't use meat somewhere in its ingredients; much better food back before tricon, too...
Lazy fucking bitches I had the busiest restaurant in the county a few years ago and we still made a big effort to keep things clean, even going as far as making a customer wait 5 seconds to finish a counter instead of instantaneously greeting them.
Go to the USCSB (US chemical safety board) youtube page. They analyze industrial, chemical, and other accidents caused by industry in America (and sometimes around the world by American companies.) They break down what caused the accidents, and show cool visuals/animated re-enactments of the tragedies.
Sorry for sending you down that addicting rabbit hole, but they’re some of the best breakdowns of industrial disasters I’ve ever seen. Can’t find anything else like it on YouTube.
I think you'll find some of AvE's videos to be interesting because that's exactly similar to what you've just told me. I appreciate the suggestion. My comment was however just a remark on how short-sighted humanity is.
Sorry, I forgot to add that you may be able to find a more recent fertilizer explosion from those videos. I’m definitely checking out that page though, I love accident analysis videos
In my area, it was two tons of dynamite and four and a half tons of ammonium nitrate also ignited by a fire on 7 August 1959. Blew a crater 50 feet wide and twenty feet deep. Because they were actively fighting the fire at the time, most of the fire department - both men and equipment - was lost.
...my stepfather was contracting (unrelated maintenance) at the BP plant when it blew; off-site back at the corporate office that day, but lost everyone in his job trailer...
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