fractal enchantment wrote:DoctorMantus wrote:Lol i love how he stands outside of Mcdonalds to see if any one would force him to go inside to eat Mcdonalds. Bc People blame fast food on their obesity.
I found that especially rediculous in one sense..the guy is taking thing out of context in order to make a point. I really dont think anyone actaully thinks that mcdonalds staff is going to force someone to eat a hamburger..but growing up in a society with fast food on every damn corner, with brainwave entraining fast food/junk food commercials targeted directly at children, it is not hard to realize what people really mean when they say such things. Why the guy making the film cant understand I dont know..perhaps he is socially retarted and cant grasp the meaning of context?
It's like saying that people who blame the system for being faulty because they are in jail for smoking cannabis can only blame themselves becasue noone MADE them smoke cannabis.
If you took that quote and just applied the logic to all other situations it sounds equally as mute..like people who believe that drugs are bad and drug users need to be locked up due to DARE programs in school, or kids that grow up eating candy and drinking pepsi becasue it was given to them all they're life, not to mention soda machines in high school hallways. I even remember going to the dentist as a kid and them giving out lollypops and them GIVING ME MCDONALDS GIFT CERTIFICATES..it doesnt get any more programmy than that..
I mean..come on the whole issue is alot deeper than that. If the guy thinks social programming and brainwashing are not important points to take into concideration here than I dont think he is able to grasp the situation to it's fullest extent.
Fast food is to blame for alot of illness IMO. Obesity is one of those illnesses. I think anyone willing to refute that is partly delusional and trying to justify some poor dietary habits they have. With all the trans fats in fast food eating that stuff is like heart attack city-reguardless of how overweight someone is..I dont know why the focus is on obesity really either..just becasue you are not super fat does not mean you are healthy, not at risk for cancer, not at risk for diabetes or heart attacks etc...but eating fast food really is not going to up your chances of being a healthy person and not developing chronic ailments and diseases.
I am half beginning to wonder if that documentary was not in part sponsored by fast food companies..it's just another level of programming imo and it saddens me that people buy into this crap.
You might be digging into some deep stuff on that last point Fractal.
Anyways, I completely agree that he can't say its all the fault of the people. In my first post in this thread I pointed out that fast food is also the cheapest food. Fresh healthy food is too expensive in this country. And Q21 you pointed this out in one of your posts about organic food.
How can this guy completely place the blame on the people? He's ignoring the fact that often fast food is all people can afford, he's ignoring the fact that single burgers on the menu can have half your total daily calorie allotment(Or more) and more than enough saturated fat and sodium. Then people wash that down with fries and a coke, not always by choice mind you but to save money, there's a reason they call it a VALUE meal.