Frank, I appreciate your reply and perspective. I think people are responsible and knowledgeable about food, more so than most folks give them credit for. It's no real mystery that people do things that they like/enjoy, even though those things are or could be bad for them. (Think smoking or unsafe sex as extreme examples)
You want people to change what their tastes are, their physical TASTE. It's like trying to get folks to stop using butter when cooking. We like the taste of things cooked with/in butter. Perhaps you can begin to understand the conundrum. We as a civilization have lived for generations on our current diet. It's more affordable and available than it has been ever before. Some of us are eating more of it than we should. Is this McDonald's fault or my/the individual's fault? Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:30 PM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yep. It's been a quite 4-5 years for McDonald's, but the looneys are >> starting to crawl back out of the woodwork. >> 'Ooouh, that food is bad for you.' > > It is, actually. > >> 'Ooouh, that food will kill you.' > > Eventually it will. > >> 'Ooouh, your kids like it and it's bad for them.' > > Well, they do, and it is. > >> 'Ooouh, we're killing poor defenseless animals just to eat them.' > > Aren't we? > > After all, that's a pretty clear statement of fact. Whether one finds > eating meat ethical or not, we ~are~ killing animals and they ~are~ > defenseless and we ~do~ kill them to eat them! > >> 'Quick, our government needs to save us from these excesses!' > > Nah, I like the concept of Darwinism in action. > >> 'People are too dumb to make their own choices.' > > What's your point? > >> 'We should only sell them what they should have, not what they want.' > > We live in a capitalist system. The market drives the economy. If a > company can make more money selling processed murdered animal > by-product than by selling broccoli and dandelion leaves, then they > have to sell the former, don't they? > >> 'From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.' > > Pinko! > >> 'And we'll tell you exactly what your needs are...' > > I'm not sure who "we" is. > >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> PS. I know of no successful enterprise which doesn't cater to what >> the customer WANTS! > > PS. I guess that says a lot about why the free ~enterprise~ system > works so well when it comes to matters of nutrition and health, eh? > > ;-) > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
