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Lettuce and Equality

Lettuce and Equality

By Amanda
A recent article in the opinion section of the Washington Post focuses on that icon of July 4th eating, the all-American hamburger, and how its components are hardly produced in the spirit of the forefathers’ economic views of free enterprise, fair price, opportunities to prosper and equality. Read on to find what author Tracy McMillan claims are the economic realities and unsustainable sources of beef, buns, tomatoes, onions and lettuce that reveal “what a simple hamburger says about our nation’s ideal of freedom and enterprise.” Continue reading