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David Simon (Author, "Meatonomics"):
If you take the externalized costs, which are about $414 billion- if the meat and dairy-industry would bear these costs themselves, the retail prices of meat and dairy would skyrocket. A $5 cartoon of eggs would go to $13. A $4 big mac would go to $11
If you take the externalized costs, which are about $414 billion- if the meat and dairy-industry would bear these costs themselves, the retail prices of meat and dairy would skyrocket. A $5 cartoon of eggs would go to $13. A $4 big mac would go to $11
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If you take those externalized costs which are about 414 billion
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If the meat and dairy industries were required to internalize those costs
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if they had to bear those costs themselves
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the costs of the retail prices of meat and dairy would skyrocket
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So a 5 carton of eggs would go to 13
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A 4 Big Mac would go to 11
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Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.