The term Super size has been deleted from the proverbial vocabulary in our society today, but has anything really changed?? The fast food companies really are marketing geniuses, they have altered menus and made sure that people know that they are trying to change to be more health "friendly". But the truth is nothing has really changed. Although they have gotten rid of their flagship "Super Size" they have come out with more choices that hold more calories than super sized fries and drinks. So to say that McDonalds is health conscious is somewhat of a smoke screen because when they got rid of one three more sprang up. This all goes along with the marketing ploy that McDonalds is changing, and keeping Americans fat and confused. Fat and confused may sound funny but it is the truth, the CDC made a graph showing the obesity rates in country and our lovely state of Pennsylvania comes in 19th, not to shabby??
Morgan Spurlock a documentry film maker made a docu/drama about eating McDonalds food for 30 days straight for his three meals a day and the results that he got were very shocking. Although this is a very drastic way of getting information and informing the american people about things that are bad for you, it worked. The information is flawed in some ways sadly, many people in the world eat unhealthy but do not eat McDonalds or fast food every day of there life for all three meals. This is just showing over time squshed into a month what can happen to someones body.
Ok, so because of this movie McDonalds pulled the super size option from the menu,good right? Wrong, this movie was made in 2004 and the graph above is from the present, so why is there still an increase? Maybe McDonalds and the other fast food king pins are not to blame. Sure its easy to point a finger at something that is so controversial like fast food, people know its bad for themselves but they only want retribution when the fast food that they love is killing them, and McDonalds is an easy target. The Fast Food Industry is'nt all to blame, its the companies that supply the food to them. If these subsidiaries were not so focused on making money but the wellfare and health of the people that buy there end product maybe McDonalds and the other fast food companies would be viewed differently.
I've put McDonalds at the spearhead of this post and it might sound like I want them to burn or "go under" but to be honest, I eat the food and like the taste. So to sit here and rant and rave about how this food is going to kill you and destroy worlds and not tell you that I eat it aswell, well thats just dumb. You cant end these companies but learn to live with them, hopefully they will change but if not, well now its on the consumer to know the limits of their bodies to this product
Greed that is all i have to say. people who run these companies and who sell the food to these companies are really to blame. they allow us to sell fatty and unhealth foods to one another and do not care as long as they are getting paid. the only way to stop fast food companies in serving us food like this is by not going to them. but because they are cheap and easy to get ahold of people will never stop.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this post I don't even want to think about eating from McDonalds again. The type of health risk that McDonalds can cause on the human body are very unhealthy and can lead to major health risk such as heat disease, high cholesterol, and massive headaches . I also enjoyed the video posted from super size me because it shows how McDonalds drastically changed someones health in only 30 days.
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