A Day In The Life

Super Size Me

Having just watched this mostly interesting and often horrific documentary (Super Size Me) I feel like I might McBarf if I see a McDonalds (alternatively) burger again . I knew fast food was bad, but it's really bad!

Every day McDonald's serves 47 million customers around the world, employing some 1.5 million people. They operate more than 30,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries around the world across 6 continents (WOW - that's big).

Surely the operators of this global phenomenon have some degree of social responsibility towards their often loyal clientel, to make sure that such a large number of people eat at least some of the nutrients the human body needs to intake each day in order to maintain a healthy well being. Well yes they do, however McDonalds spends millions a year on Washington based lobbyists who spend their whole time ensuring the government does not introduce legislation which may hamper their profit making enterprise. McDonalds is after all a business and its true allegiance lies with its shareholders, not its supersized customers.

So this guy Morgan Spurlock (blog) put himself on a collision course with the grim reaper simply by eating food from the largest, most widespread 'restaurant' (if you can call it that) on the planet. It must be said that he deliberately put himself in danger by taking part in such an experiment, no one would really only eat the produce of McDonalds would they? Perhaps not but a lot of people do eat there 3, 4 or 5 times plus a week... for years! Judging by the damage caused to Morgan's body in 30 days, this kind of eating is only going to lead to one place, McDeath!

posted by mrwhatshisface @ 12:52 pm