I see a lot of ridiculous surveys come up in the news on a daily basis. I see them and always come up with better ideas for surveys. Well I came up with one today. I was reading somewhere about the rising prices of wheat, corn and milk etc., because of increasing demand from Asia and use of these things for other purposes (eg. Ethanol production). Also a number human beings are gaining weight and of course the world population growth. All this brings in more demand and when demand rises non-proportional to supply, prices go up (Basic Economics). Well Population growth will be taken care of by the superpowers when things get ugly on the third rock or we are introduced to aliens, but what does the over weight people doing to the demand? why does we have to pay a dollar for a Big Mac? why not 50 cents? anyway somebody should find out. I do not know if somebody has already found out but if not this might be helpful information, this might be a good project for an MBA or an Economics student class.
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