Burger King Tomato Rant

By Kira Hamman

I have been following this whole Burger King tomato thing with a mixture of interest and despair.

In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, tomato pickers in Florida are asking Burger King to pay a little more for tomatoes so that they can raise wages and work under better conditions.

The workers, who currently labor under pretty awful conditions for a below-poverty-level wage, are asking for one cent more per pound, and Burger King is claiming that it can’t possibly afford to pay that.

Now, I’m a mathematician, so let’s do a little math. Read the rest of this entry »