The true cost of a cheeseburger — kottke.org

Mark Bittman on the true cost of producing a hamburger, after accounting for externalities like carbon generation and obesity. Cheeseburgers are the coal of the food world, with externalities in spades; in fact it's unlikely that producers of cheeseburgers bear the full cost of any aspect of making them. This made me think of something I wrote for Worldchanging several years ago about a True Cost rating:

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