Supersize Me

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[quote]harris447 wrote:
singram wrote:
Kailash wrote:
Yes, people should be responsible. But the mega-corps that are perpetrating a toxic food environment know exactly what they’re doing: make mega-bucks, and externalize the costs. It’s the same in every industry. Maybe your next foray into alt-film should be, “The Corporation”…

In this case, the mega-corps are preying upon overworked or lazy people who gravitate toward convenience and flavor, which is all very human (animalistic). They’re the experts at the psychology of food and the marketplace, and are leveraging that advantage to the maximum benefit to their stockholders, while putting the costs onto the general public. Including health care costs to those who don’t even choose fast food!

So where’s my choice in that matter? About as nihl as the choice not to be intoxicated by mercury and radioactive wastes from coal-fired power plants, for those few eskimos and pygmies who never even touched an electrical appliance. Anyways…

WTF,you do have a choice.It’s not like the public doen’t know the dangers of fast food.The part of the reason we’re a fat nation is because we are a lazy nation,people see all the time on TV the dangers of eating and all the skinny famous people who they worship because they have lean and skinny bodies.People today have more information than ever on how to lose weight,and they are listening.Look at the best sellers list on Amazon,Dr.Atkins,Body-for-life,South Beach.We’re not all lemmings who get brainwashed by Ronald McDonald.If you choose to be healthy,you will.If you choose to be fat and overweight,you will listen to those who say"You were born with fat genes,you might as well be happy with the way you are"McDonalds is a business,it sells fast foods.If you don’t like that they sell and market fast unhealthy foods,move to Cuba,you won’t have to make a choice on what food to eat there.

That’s the choice: accept the mea-corporations addicting children to poison while refusing to accept any responsibility for it, or move to Cuba?

I call TSB upon this thread and your writing.
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Oh man,that the 2nd time in a month I’ve been TSB.God help me.

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I dont know about anyone else in here, but i’ve never seen ronald mcdonald holding a gun to a fat lady’s head screaming eat that big mac fatty.

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[quote]singram wrote:
Oh man,that the 2nd time in a month I’ve been TSB.God help me.[/quote]

Maybe you should have read my entire response then, eh?

What choice do I have but to pay Trans McFatty’s healthcare costs? What choice does an eskimo have in avoiding mercury-tainted fish, because you and I enjoy coal-fired electricity?

You want to talk about freedom? The corporation’s freedom to swing their fist should end where my face begins. But externalization of these real costs hurts everyone, including the innocent, including those who chose wisely.

Read the post, then respond to it. Or go fucking reactionary, respond only to yourself, and get called on TSB. It’s YOUR CHOICE, PARDNER!

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[quote]harris447 wrote:

That’s the choice: accept the mea-corporations addicting children to poison while refusing to accept any responsibility for it, or move to Cuba?

I call TSB upon this thread and your writing.
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OK,lets ban fast food,breakfast cereals,doughnuts,and pretty much anything with transfatty and suger in them.People are just too dumb not to fall for all those fancy slick advertising that gets us hooked on crappy food.

Yes,we need more education to let people know the dangers of overconsuming bad shit,but really,I don’t want people who claim to be smarter than me(which isn’t very hard)telling me what I can and can’t eat.

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[quote]Kailash wrote:
singram wrote:
Oh man,that the 2nd time in a month I’ve been TSB.God help me.

Maybe you should have read my entire fucking post then, eh?

What choice do I have but to pay Trans McFatty’s medicare/medicaid costs? What choice does an eskimo have in avoiding mercury-tainted fish, because you and I enjoy coal-fired electricity?

Read the post, then respond to it. Or go fucking reactionary, shouting the same things you did before - but with me as a target - and get called on TSB. Now this one’s YOUR CHOICE, PARDNER![/quote]

Um,I was joking about the TSB.I really don’t care that somebody is calling me names over the net that I don’t even know.I just thought it was funny,PARTNER!

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I agree completely Angelbutt. I feel bad for obese adults gorging on McD’s, but the real victims are their children.

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I don’t know what is dumber, regularly eating at McDonalds or wasting time watching a movie about how bad food is bad for you.

If some jackass made a movie about how playing in traffic is bad for you would you feel compelled to watch it too?

Rise above these petty things.

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i went in expecting to hate it , but ended up liking it. it was entertaining enough on its own regardless of the political implications.

i thought i would hate it because i thought i was going to be preached to but that wasn’t the case at all. it was pretty much just a guy doing an experiment saying let’s see what happens. just like we do on this site w/ supps all the time.

i like the fact that he had 3 seperate doctors he consulted w/ over the month.

i also liked that they showed him puking before he got over the hump and used to the food. that was tasty.

i also liked learning how fast he was pickling his liver and was approaching liver failure the same way alcoholics do. and with that in mind i guess i’ll stop eating m’cdee’s when i’m drinking. that is the best time though isn’t it.

btw what the fuck’s up with talking out your ass when you haven’t even seen the movie. jeeez-s !

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[quote]singram wrote:
It’s not my fault I’m fat, its McDonalds.
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There is a lot of truth in what you say.

People who get fat eating McD’s are just ASKING TO GET FAT. That is no shit.

We all know McD’s isn’t healthy - so we all know that if you eat it, you yourself will be unhealthy… That is very true as well.

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But it isn’t that simple.

McDonald’s ENTIRE BUSINESS is based on selling us something that LOOKS LIKE FOOD, it SMELLS LIKE FOOD, and it is SOLD AS FOOD.

But it ISN’T FOOD.

Do you see that this is fraud, by the very definition of the word? McDonald’s spends LOADS OF MONEY to figure out how to make their burgers cheaper, but smell/taste better. That doesn’t sound so bad, does it? But see, what they are doing is REDUCING THE NUTRITION and INCREASING THE GOOD SMELL/LOOK.

This means they are trying harder and harder to make it look/smell like FOOD, and harder and harder the reduce the actual FOOD CONTENT.

Certainly you see that this is fraud? And you see this fraud is backed by mega-million dollar marketing campaigns? This is unbelievably disgusting, repulsive behavior.

Check out some of McDonald’s practices with our ecology, and other facts:
http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/pretrial/factsheet.html

Also, McD’s adds LOADS of MSG to their product (As do many food manufacturer’s in america today)… MSG is an APPETITE INCREASER and works like a pharmeceutical in this aspect.

No I don’t mean people eat the food cause it makes it taste better. I mean, aside from being a flavor additive, it has an effect on our nervous system that causes us to overeat.

This is not a small thing. This is a horrible thing.

The first “Ronald McDonald” actor publically apologized for his role in influencing poor choices in children’s and adults diets.

Even Ronald flipped the bird at McD’s.

I believe all people are total drones for the way they let corporatins and politicians walk all over them. It has gotten so blatant that even I’m in disbelief of the average person’s complacency.

Some people actually want to DEFEND McDonald’s. Not even Ronald McDonald will defend it.

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[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
If some jackass made a movie about how playing in traffic is bad for you would you feel compelled to watch it too?

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Shit yes I would. You know that’d be entertaining to see a guy dodging cars.

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[quote]ToShinDo wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
If some jackass made a movie about how playing in traffic is bad for you would you feel compelled to watch it too?

Shit yes I would. You know that’d be entertaining to see a guy dodging cars.

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Hell, one of the most popular video games involved crossing traffic (granted you were a frog) LOL

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[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
I don’t know what is dumber, regularly eating at McDonalds or wasting time watching a movie about how bad food is bad for you.

If some jackass made a movie about how playing in traffic is bad for you would you feel compelled to watch it too?[/quote]

No one is getting rich by influencing people to play in the street.

That’s the major issue with your metaphor.

The movie is about a company that sells a TOXIN as if it were a FOOD.

And it does at ALL OVER THE WORLD.

And backs it with marketing in which they have invested millions…to figure out how to get people to buy and consume their food-toxins.

They mostly focus on A) kids and B) the poor and un-educated.

That is very different from people “playing in the street”

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This is a fitting picture.

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[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Hell, one of the most popular video games involved crossing traffic (granted you were a frog) LOL
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Actually, I was never a frog. Those are only rumors, and were all disproved in civil court years ago.

I’ll thank you to not bring it up again.

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[quote]Angelbutt wrote:
I did some pretty extensive research into how children’s diets are affected by advertising, and there are definateley prominent connections. Unfortunately, these connections are not usually corrected by the majority of parents.

And so a whole other issue arises…
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AB, I be really interested to see your research. Can you post it? Please?

Thanks.

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YOU WILL HAVE FRIES WITH THAT!

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[quote]horny yoda wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
I don’t know what is dumber, regularly eating at McDonalds or wasting time watching a movie about how bad food is bad for you.

If some jackass made a movie about how playing in traffic is bad for you would you feel compelled to watch it too?

No one is getting rich by influencing people to play in the street.

That’s the major issue with your metaphor.

The movie is about a company that sells a TOXIN as if it were a FOOD.

And it does at ALL OVER THE WORLD.

And backs it with marketing in which they have invested millions…to figure out how to get people to buy and consume their food-toxins.

They mostly focus on A) kids and B) the poor and un-educated.

That is very different from people “playing in the street”

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If you don’t like it don’t eat it.

There are plenty of industries that supply products of questionable value.

McDonalds is not the best food for you but you could live on it if you have too.

iPods are worse for you than McDonalds. They damage your hearing and distract you thus leading to fatal accidents. They should be banned.

Perhaps we should ban pornography because it damages the family?

Perhaps we should ban the internet because it too can be dangerous?

Life is full of choices. If people chose to eat at McDonalds it is their problem.

If some guy wants to make money by making a movie how overeating nasty food can damage his health that is fine. I don’t need to spend the money or time to find out how it ends.

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I SAID, EAT THE FUCKEN BIG MAC!

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okay, maybe i was wrong about ronald mcdonald holding a gun to someone’s head…that stupid clown is packing…who would’ve known… I knew i had coulrophobia for some reason

jt