OT: Supersize me

[Merryprankster]

So, I finally saw this. Have to say the folks who are talking about how awful corporate america is and McDonalds, etc, are missing the real commentary.

Seems to me, the documentary was really a commentary on American lifestyle habits.

If I ate McD's three times a day and limited my exercise, I'd get fat too...

So the show is really about how fat people eat badly and don't exercise.

Screw corporate responsibility on this one.

[SimonM]

Perhaps both messages are important to the film, that's what I got from it.

[rogue]

We must blame corporate America for our troubles or we have to admit the problem is us.

[WinterPalm]

The problem definately rests on the shoulders of the people. However, it is the corporations who provide and abuse the weakness that are also to blame. I mean really, we blame drug dealers and give them worse sentences than the users. And how many drug dealers would say they want their clients to die?

[Vash]

At one time, it was said: "eat **** and die."

That wasn't a suggestion, it was a warning.

If you're too stupid to understand bad food = bad health, you deserve what comes.

[wdl]

Well said Vash.

Corp. America can't be blamed for fast food. People want it and are willing to spend the almighty dollar on it. If people didn't want fast food it wouldn't exist. It's a matter of supply and demand. The world's economy exists on it. If everyone completely 100% boycotted McDonalds for 6 months it would fold up and die, but it'll never happen.


-Will

[MoreMisfortune]

The problem definately rests on the shoulders of the people. However, it is the corporations who provide and abuse the weakness that are also to blame. I mean really, we blame drug dealers and give them worse sentences than the users. And how many drug dealers would say they want their clients to die?

this concluded the discussion
thanx, Palm

only the ball licking **** ridding **** eating right wingers were not capable of realising this

a simple exemple so that your weak minds controlled by the right wing can begin to understand:
i decide to sell LEMONADE.
i start the BUKKAKE-DO LEMONADE CORPORATIONS
now, this LEMONADE that tastes really GOOD.
Ok, lets say im selling my LEMONADE with some RAT POISON on it, what can i do, its part of the recipe for my AWESOME LEMONADE.
Cos it tastes good a lot of people will buy it, get sick and die.
They dont stop buying, cos it tastes GOOD
SO WHAT YOU RIGHT WINGERS ARE SAYING IS ITS NOT MY FAULT AND ITS NOT MY CORPORATIONS FAULT THAT I SELL THIS SUPER SICKENING GOOD TASTING JUICE?
OH WHAT THE ****, OF ****ING COURSE ITS MY FAULT FOR SELLING CRAP
YOU MOTHER ****ERS
ARE YOU ****ING BLIND

btw, it wasnt my corporation that made you blind, i just sell lemonade, your blindness is not my problem, go mind your own bussiness.

sweet, now substitute LEMONADE for CRACK
whats wrong with CRACK
CRACK feels GOOD
If i sell CRACK its NOT MY FAULT THAT THE KIDS BUY IT AND ****ING DIE
They have their own choice not buy afterall!!
YEAH RIGHT YOU MOTHER ****ERS
OF COURSE ITS MY FAULT, IM SELLING THE SHYT!!

[rogue]

OF COURSE ITS MY FAULT, IM SELLING THE SHYT!!

MoreMisfortune needs a lesson in how a non-command economy works.

[norther practitioner]

So, I finally saw this. Have to say the folks who are talking about how awful corporate america is and McDonalds, etc, are missing the real commentary.

Seems to me, the documentary was really a commentary on American lifestyle habits.

If I ate McD's three times a day and limited my exercise, I'd get fat too...

So the show is really about how fat people eat badly and don't exercise.

Screw corporate responsibility on this one.

I agree for the most part.

If there wasn't a demand for this crap food, the industry wouldn't be growing like it is still.

[MasterKiller]

If they didn't force their way into high school and jr high cafeterias, if they didn't add appetite enhancers to their food, if they didn't target kids below the age 5 with their advertising you guys might have a point.

Not all fast food companies are bad. Chick-Fil-A is good example of a company that practices what it preaches.

McDonald's is by far the worst.

They lie about their food content. French Fries are cooked in Beef Tallow; yet, they market them as vegetarian and even Vegan friendly. They were almost chased out of India when nosy reporters started reporting that their fries were cooked in Beef Tallow, even though their literature specifically stated they used 100% vegetable oil. McDonald's did an about face and quickly refitted all of their Indian restaurants AFTER the media ran the story.

They pretty much control the beef and potato industry, which are unregulated. The FDA has no control over beef recalls. The packagers, backed by McDonald's money, lobbies consistently and spends lots and lots of money in Washington to keep the industry unregulated. McDonald's will only force a recall when the media is alerted to the fact that tainted beef has been traced to one of their distributors.

That meat is later packaged and resold to the lowest bidder, which, by the way, is the Public School System.

[norther practitioner]

That meat is later packaged and resold to the lowest bidder, which, by the way, is the Public School System.

No wonder I was always a hungry child....

got to love public schools.....

which by the way is where the gf works.

[wdl]

If they didn't force their way into high school and jr high cafeterias, if they didn't add appetite enhancers to their food, if they didn't target kids below the age 5 with their advertising you guys might have a point.

Not all fast food companies are bad. Chick-Fil-A is good example of a company that practices what it preaches.

McDonald's is by far the worst.

All the more reason for no one to go to McDonalds. K-mart sucked, nobody went there now look what's happening to them. People just need to have the same perception of McDonalds. If the general public did, they would go under. They are already in trouble as it is.

-Will

[norther practitioner]

my only question to you guys is:

Have you tasted the mcgriddle.......

[David Jamieson]

They pretty much control the beef and potato industry, which are unregulated.

uh, I think you are wrong about this. All foods are pretty strongly regulated in the US by the Food and Drug admin and by similar bodies in other countries.

The murky part would be in the actual preparation of the food, but it should be good when it gets there.

[SimonM]

make.

How many people complain about MacDonalds and still eat there?

Well, I don't eat there. Wendys gets my very occasional fast food dollars. Very occasionally KFC and Harveys. Never McDonalds.