McDonald's STRIKES AGIAN

Discussion in 'Globalization' started by shedtroll, Oct 15, 2006.

  1. shedtroll

    shedtroll Peace, Love & Linux

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    Yeah, those Mc-spotlight/London greenpeace people have the right idea.
     
  2. napolean inrags95

    napolean inrags95 Member

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    it's not just a matter of other people eating what they want. if people want to eat mcdonalds, im not going to stop them. but i will raise my objections to the surrounding issues of fast food and the ethics surrounding the establishment. mcdonalds is in all of our faces, all day every day. and like other folks of said, when kids are bombarded with mindfuck advertisments from the day they're born, and told that fruits and vegetables aren't "cool", and that their food choices are a reflection of themselves, are they really making a clear well-informed decision about what they're putting in their bodies?

    is nutrition and ingredient information readily available in all mcdonalds restaurants? are average customers aware of the environmental implications of their decision? are they likely to become more aware unless they personally take steps to become more more informed? no. if all the implications of eating fast food were fully disclosed and peopel still wanted to eat it, then fine. but omission isn't all that different from lying in my book, and i'm damn sure atleast a few folks would quit eating the food if they really understood all the surrounding implications. but it seems people keep eating shitty food because it's convient and it tastes good and everyone else does it.
     
  3. shedtroll

    shedtroll Peace, Love & Linux

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    True...

    Really it's brainwashing.
     
  4. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    eat MCD for a month and get fat..well no shit thats what would happen..didn't need to see the movie to know that. I thought it was a pointless experiment with painfully obvious consequences.
     
  5. Piney

    Piney Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Anybody here eat Fish & Chips ?

    Is the food better or healthier at Bennigans/ Fridays/ Ruby Tuesdays / Ruth Chris Steak House/ Charlie Browns/ Chilis /

    How does cafeteria food stand up ?

    Is Candy OK? You should see my Haloween Stash !

    I cant wait for Easter to see what choclates the bunny brings.

    Who said Vegtables arent cool ?

    Is Chineese Food take-out healthier than MacDonalds.

    What about all that fattening fettuchini at The Olive Garden?

    Anybody eat mexican food? Are Tacos healthy ?

    How about Soda ?



    So many consumer choices out there ....cultivate a little discpline!
     
  6. napolean inrags95

    napolean inrags95 Member

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    you could very easily make a healthful choice at a chinese restaurant, at olive garden, at fridays, at charlie browns or wherever

    two things seperate those restaurants from mcdonalds...

    they have healthful alternatives to the shitty stuff that are probably just as prominently placed on their menu. i've heard that even mcdonalds salads have upwards of 30 grams of fat

    and two...they cost money that many folks eating mcdonalds may not have.
     
  7. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    eventually all of us will eat something that is deemed unhealthy weather we realize it or not. The key is to how much healty food is consumed and the effort we make to stay in shape and take care of our bodies. eating MCD and than complaining about how it makes you fat is pointless and kind of stupid..well no duh it makes you fat! I knew it was bad for you when I was three.
     
  8. shedtroll

    shedtroll Peace, Love & Linux

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    Well, supersize me was no an experiment as such, It was an experiment to show those who are allready going to MCD everyday what their doing to themselfs and to tell those who are starting on that path (and there is alot of those people all voer the world) what will happen.

    Sure, Fast good is a good thing once and a while, but at a chippy, at least they give me the choice of salt, and their food is usauly made there infrom to you and less addictive. I don't eat F&P every day, lunch, breakfast and dinner.

    (I'm gonna get flamed, I know)
     
  9. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    well I used the wrong word..

    but if someone is to ignorant to see themselves get fat they likely won't see it in someone else on a screen.

    It shocks me that some people could actually see MCD as healthy. Just the smell and taste and how you can visually see it being prepared right in front of you. and how it looks. I don't even need the health info, it simply just strenghtens my orginal belief and gives me some numbers.
     
  10. Columbo

    Columbo Senior Member

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    yes I do
    Compared to a macdonalds its much better, but all those you mention are about the same
    nothing beats a good local fish and chip shop - lovely fish thats not like the crap stuff macdonalds minces up and slaps out as a filet - hmm uh hmmm
    ooh I can smell that battered plaice now
    I go to to this cafe in whitechapel where Gilbert and George sometimes go and its wonderful - absolutely wonderful - food there is much better than macdonalds
    You bet !!!
    Oh brilliant nothing like fettuchini - miles better for you than macdonalds - huh hmmmm hmmm !!!!
    GREEEEEAAAAT !! tacos - wow cant beat em - far and away healthier than a macdonalds
    And eat duck stuffed with blackcherries and marinaded in a red wine sauce sweetened with sugar and blackcherry syrup !!!!!! I recommend it
     
  11. ramadecer

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    really, how can you name it "food"?...come to Romania and find out what they are doing here..And what`s worse: kids love eating those junks and they are even fighting and arguing with their parents cuz of this...It`s a trend!
    And this awful thing comes together with some other shitty things like the nuclear accident from Cernobil (it`s about the same shhhht..).That`s why I`m a member of the McDonald`s Generation....Have you something more sad than that?....
     
  12. wackyiraqi

    wackyiraqi Senior Member

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    Sometimes after I eat McDonalds my stomach feels like Chernobyl.
     
  13. SunshineChild

    SunshineChild Mad Scientist

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    He nearly gained non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. His serum cholesterol level rose 40%..

    Twice a week doesn't even constitute to me as healthy. Or maybe it's just because I know the people who work at McD's here. :rolleyes:
     
  14. hippy_dude26

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    why is mcdonalds so capitalistic? when i went on holiday to zakynthos, there was one there!!!
     
  15. ClosingTide

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    They're everywhere. I heard there is even one on Mars. If not, then there soon will be.
     
  16. Ganja_Goo_Ninja

    Ganja_Goo_Ninja the penis mightier

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    I worked an a Burger King when I was 16, and the combination of being a young-dumb-kid, underpaid, and having to deal with annoying people ment that I sent out a LOT of nasty food (burgers that fell on the ground, snot in the mayo, spit in the Whoppers, etc.). They don't pay their employees enough money or respect for them to give a fuck about what they're doing.
     
  17. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    yah but why take it out on innocent folks?
     
  18. Ganja_Goo_Ninja

    Ganja_Goo_Ninja the penis mightier

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    Because I was 16 and.. well, a twat I guess. I didn't have a very developed sense of empathy at that age.
     
  19. Mester

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    McMurder is nuzeeng bot un ipperently vell-thought oout gufernment plut tu mind cuntrul. iff it luoks remutely ideeble-a, its @ McD's
     
  20. spooner

    spooner is done.

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    We did the same shit, but mostly saved it for the folks who pissed us off in the slightest degree. I've seen some horrible things done to cops' burgers.
     

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