oh how good it feels to write
TV is funny. It's charity drive for famine in some disadvantaged country time, and the point they want to drive home is that you (your donation) can make a difference. For only a $30 donation, you could feed a family of four for six whole months! This brings up an interesting question: why the hell am I paying $3 for a Big Mac?

I mean, theoretically, if you compare to that example, I should be able to live on $30 for 2 years if I were in some little war-torn country, but I pay one-tenth of that, 2.4 months of money, just for two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles all on a sesame seed bun.

Right, cost of living and all that. They charge the price because they can, but I want to know exactly what corners are being cut to stretch $30 to last 6 months to feed four people. I'm guessing they don't have a whole lot of McDonalds vouchers lying around to give to the families, so it must be some farming thing, which is ridiculous. It's a bit insensitive to expect them to drag themselves away from something fun like a civil war or mass female circumcision to do something as boring as farming.

In high school agriculture class, I had to farm for two hours a week, and that was two hours too many. At first, it's entertaining to see dirt and shovels and things that you stuffed into the ground with average enthusiasm grow into some sort of vegetable I didn't eat because I was 14 and hated vegetables, but it gets boring fast. This is especially true of developed countries where childrens book illustrators have been asked "to avoid showing uncut loaves of bread and freestanding wardrobes because they might be unfamiliar to American readers." link. It's just a little offensive to maintain such a harsh double-standard, that's all I'm saying.

Looks like a bit of haggling may occur the next time I'm at McDonalds.