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Patel argues that corporations, driven only to achieve profits, do not try to satisfy real human needs. For example, Patel presents us with the true cost of a hamburger, not a $10 hamburger (that would be considered to many, pricey enough) but a $200 hamburger! How can that be? When you factor in the externalities, such as the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from cattle, the amount of trees leveled in rainforests to satisfy meat supply to the world?s fast food restaurants, the fertilizer and fossil fuel needed to grow and transport corn for animal feed used to feed the cattle, and other costs?it adds up to being a real whopper.