Consider the French fry from its inception as a potato plant to its eventual destination in your
Question:
Consider the French fry from its inception as a potato plant to its eventual destination in your body. Try to list all the costs, paid and unpaid, along the line of production, trans- portation, and consumption that are incurred in making French fries (consider things like labor, environmental impacts, and so on). Once you have a produced an exhaustive list, consider who pays the cost of each. Is it the consumer, the retailer, the farmer? What costs go “unaccounted” and are externalized onto the public? Which costs are the most “hidden” or hardest to track or measure? If these costs were included in the price of French fries, how expensive do you imagine they might be?
Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics
ISBN: 978-0073212227
8th Edition
Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell