Monday, October 11, 2010

How Bad is McDonalds Food, from the Huffington Post

This piece includes a video of a dramatic short ad warning against fast food, a shot directly across McDonalds' bow. The writer asks if the ad is in acceptable taste...or over the top. Here's the last sentence in the article:

You would have to walk for seven hours without stopping to burn off the calories from a Big Mac, a Coke and an order of fries. 

5 comments:

Khal said...

Robbins is not alone. Read Michael Pollan's stuff too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/health/02brod.html

Larry and Heather said...

"Edible feces" is what Larry calls this stuff. Right here in our hometown Eldon Roth is lauded as a sort of hero -- the guy who created and markets a sort of "beef slurry" made from slaughterhouse waste that makes up more than 10% of those fast-food burgers! This is why we're members of the Slowfood movement.

Khal said...

My aunts and uncles stayed active and ate a traditional Italian diet. They lived long and relatively disease-free. Health-wise, you are what you eat and what you do.

Khal said...

Geeze, Heather. Our vet in Honolulu used to tell us to cook our own pet food because the stuff in the can was "the four D's", i.e., dead, diseased, dying, or decomposing". Put in in a pot, cook the hell out of it, and then can it as dog or cat food. Sounds like we are doing the same thing for Fast Food Nation.

Larry and Heather said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html?pagewanted=all

tells all about this "food" product. We wonder how the video of this fellow made its way into Food Inc. since the portrayal is less than flattering? But no joke, this fellow's a hero around these parts and is currently operating a restaurant hyping his newest invention -- beef treated with some chemical process he invented to make it "always tender" or something like that. We try to avoid ANYTHING that could have come out of the slaughterhouse in nearby Dakota City!