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Comment by bsedlm | Hacker News Reader

truly we are living in the age of abundance... but as there are more and more material widgets and stuff, so does the quantity of garbage increase

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Just had a taco salad combo from the red haired girl fast food chain. It's made out of 10 individual plastic parts (salad bowl and cover, sour cream cup, nacho chips bag, chili cup cover, fork and fork packaging, salsa cup, water bottle and cap), 2 cardboard (fries and chili cup), a cover for sour cream (unidentified material) and an aluminum cover for the salsa cup. I feel sick now.

> I feel sick now.

That's because the lettuce in the salad was supplied with so little margin that the $1/hour migrant workers harvesting it aren't given anywhere sensible to defecate.

Migrant workers in my area (eastern-central Canada) are getting legal minimum wage ($14 to $15 per hour). Some may be abused and /or mismanaged, so are many locals working for minimum wage. That kind of seasonal revenue can be a blessing for families in Mexico or Guatemala, feeding them year long. That being said, I know their situation is not ideal. Thanks for making me reflect on the people feeding us.

I tried to purchase lunch from the red haired girl a couple of weeks ago, and after waiting in line for 20 minutes I left and went to see the clown (where I got to wait another 10 minutes).

I wish more people knew what it was like to never eat at any of those places

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