I LOATHE MacDonald's
And their "healthy foods" ("salad this, fruit that") AREN'T.
Stupid fat people are buying 'em without realising the salad dressings make it as bad as some of the burgers and their fruit drinks have been slammed for containing so much sugar (& targeted at children).
And it's fairly disgusting that they're still producing burger meals that are well over women's recommended calorie intake. They're not responsible for the obesity epidemic in the western world, but they continue to take advantage.
[edit] Actually, yeah, they probably ARE responsible in part for the obesity problem- as they've been loading their food with cheap high fructose corn syrup for years, so that now the typical westerner is addicted to sweet food..... christ, I sound like that vile scottish hunchback *sad*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 9:19,
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But everything they sell has the nutritional values printed all over the wrapper
its not like theyre misleading people these days.
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taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 9:28,
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Hey Tat. I'm genuinely divided 'cos I firmly believe that people SHOULD be responsible for their actions.
But the fast food industry IS deliberately taking advantage of stupid people. And nutritional tables aren't ever going to win against a billion-dollar ad campaigns.
An occasional burger as a treat isn't going to make you fat, in the same way that studies have shown the negative effects of an occasional cigarettes are negligable. But I reckon the junk food industry is as responsible as the tobacco industry is for smoking-related illness & death.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 9:37,
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Everyone takes advantage of stupid people
one way or another, that's just life, from the person who pushes supermarket trolleys around the car park to the person who sweeps your road to the person who serves your burger. They work to their ability and get paid a minimum wage and we all enjoy the benefits.
When it comes down to what someone puts in their own body, they are the only one 100% responsible.
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Unless you're talking rape.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 9:59,
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The whole fructose thing is quite interesting, like oil it's a good example of a business structure that works far better for the business than the consumer or planet
Basically we got shiteloads of fructose to shift and food manufacturers need a nice cheap way of making their over processed under nutritious shite taste good, however fructose actually doesn't taste of much at all so you need to put craploads of it in, and that pushes up the calories.
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..wil, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 13:12,
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