On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:50 AM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > I completely agree with you. It should be clearer and easier for the > consumer to determine which foods are produced and packaged to their > standards. If you want something that is "All natural", or "sugar free", or > "low calorie", it should be CLEAR what those words mean, and the labeling > should be standardized and regulated. > > But this is McDonalds. We know it's not healthy.
This is just the very beginning of it though. McDonald's is able to make a Happy Meal, with a toy, cheap enough to feed your kid whenever they cry and whinge about wanting a toy precisely because of a legacy of government decisions. They subsidize the corn that is used as filler in burger. They subsidize the corn that is force fed to the cow in a factory farm that forms the beef portion of the burger. They decline to review or regulate the usage of the antibiotics that they have to pump into the cow in the factory farm to keep it from dying to early due to its corn diet and lack of exercise. They keep the price of the toys in those meals cheap enough to give away by not establishing mandatory safety inspections and standards for toys imported from China. The list goes on and on and on. I love burgers. I love meat, period. I've yet to meet a meat I didn't like to eat. I like to wrap my meat in other meats and see how many species I can get on a single sandwich. McDonald's doesn't play fair though and they get a huge long string of benefits that end up allowing them to sell your kid crap at less than a dollar, spend millions on marketing that crap and still make a giant profit, not from the quality of their food but from the benefits that they receive that your local good meat pusher doesn't. > I just want to ensure that as an American, i still have the right to do > unhealthy things from time to time, if I so choose. What's the point of > living if you don't get to have some fun? I want some alcohol sometimes, I > want some nudity sometimes (ok, LOTS of times), and I want the occasional > Big Mac. I love alcohol and nudity. Though I must admit, I get creeped out when meat gets mixed in with nudity and alcohol. There's a strip club in town that is really well known for...it's steaks. I went there once and watched guys chowing down on a big steak while watching women dance naked and I think that its fucking creepy. I'd also point out that nudity, your own and others, is far from unhealthy. > I just want to make sure I always have to things....so I get defensive when > people suggest beginning to chip away at that in the name of the "public > health". My health is just fine, worry about yourself :) I don't think of it as public health. Public health should, hopefully, be a side benefit. I want a level playing field. I want to see the market corrected so there is genuine competition and things aren't horrendously tilted toward Big Ag. I think that if people have a bunch of good options out there that are priced at true market value and bad crap isn't heavily subsidized, that people will make healthier decisions. Maybe they won't. I suspect that enough will that public health will increase, but my priority is making more options available and having them reflect their true costs rather than forcing choices (as is done through subsidies) on people. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331063 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
