[904] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
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.