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Re: Vegetarians of the world unite, call Burger King (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doris Lin)
Mon Apr 8 14:40:52 1996

Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 11:39:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doris Lin <dlin@chaph.usc.edu>
To: "Sandeep K. Gupta" <skgupta@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960403212342.5282E-100000@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>


I would guess that the veggie burger costs more mainly because of the 
subsidy to meat producers, but also because of the relatively low 
demand.  The producers of veggie burgers don't have the economy of scale 
that Burger King does for its Whopper.  

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