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Have any of you heard about this? I want to see this. the guy risked his health to make this film!

Link doesn't work for me but taking only what you quoted.

Is 1,000,000 animals an hour just during peak dinner times or is this average an hour every hour of the day. If it's during peak dinner eating times for say 2 hours a day, no biggie. If it's an average over the entire 24 hours then by my calculations we're consuming 8,760,000,000 animals a year. Does that number also include things like dog and cat food or just human consumption? If you think about it, a large majority of cows are used for something but not all of it's going to end up on the BBQ grill. Something else to keep in mind. Not all "animals" are the same size. Ever had a plate full of crawdads? It takes about a dozen of those little things to be an appitizer.

Ok, 1972 was $3,000,000,000 per year on fast food. In 1972 my parents spent about $5,500 on a fully decked out top end luxery T-Bird. Today we spend more than $110,000,000,000 on fast food. In the next month or so my wife and I will spend $32,000 on a decently equipped (far from top end) minivan. In 1972 a lot more people had somebody stay home and make dinner. Today a majority of families have two working parents that get off of work, are tired and stop at McD's on the way home because they don't have the energy to go home and spend an hour making taco's/pot roast/etc.

Left unabated, kindergarden children will continue to be hungry 10 minutes prior to eating lunch.

By the way, I risk my life every time I walk out my door. Who knows, an airplane could fall out of the sky and land on top of me in my very own front yard.

Edited, Mon Apr 12 14:46:11 2004 by Madahme

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So quoteths the twelve year old, yet to experience metabolism slow down in his twnetys.

Ah the days when I could eat two burrito supreems, three tacos and an extra large pepsi while sneering at the fat lady in the booth next to me for ordering a small diet pepsi with her 69 cent tacos.

whine whine whine, your still a babe, get over it.

How do you get fat?? Well the formula is pretty simple. If you take in more calories than you expend then your body is probably going to store it as fat. (though some people wont they are lucky) The problem is not just what we are eating it is also a product of Americans becoming more sendintary. ie playing Everquest 5 hours a day. You could eat 3 bags of Oreos and wash it down with a tub of lard as long as your willing to do the exercise to use up those calories.

The bigger issue with McD's not offering supersized fries is another example of people not taking responsibilty for their actions. "I'm fat. It cant be my fault it must be someone elses. McDonalds is at fault." So pressure is put on McD's and they caved. Sad, but a sign of the times if you ask me. This is what McD's should have said. "Look you lazy fat ******* we didnt drag you in here kicking and screaming to eat and we certainly didnt force you to upsize you fries and drink when you did come in on your own. Either exercise more or eat less it's up to you but we are not responsible."

What pisses me off is that they'll ask every time if you want to supersize it, but they never ask someting obvious like if you want ketchup with your fries. Silly me. I used to assume that they either asked or just automatically put them in the bag (or at least that's the way it used to be). Nothing more annoying then getting home with your bag of fast food only to realize that they didn't bother to put any ketchup in the damn bag.

Exactly what percentage of US eaters do *not* put ketchup on their fries? 2%? Seems like a no-brainer.

More annoying about fast food then the servers are the idiot people in line though. The ones who are going to a fast food place, but seem to want their damn food customized just for them. Look. If you can't find one thing you can simply order just off the menu, then maybe you should go somewhere else (or freaking stop being such a picky eater!)?

What I still dont understand to this day is the absolute fascination children have with McDonalds though. It's like some kind of kiddy brainwashing! I was standing around the local Rubio's (which is an amazingly good Mexican Restaraunt. Not the *bertos kind of place, but really really good). I overhear a kid whining to his father as they're walking in. Only really heard the father's response "No. You can't have McDonalds. You're eating Rubios and you'll like it!" (go dad!). On the other side of the lot is a McDonalds. I'm fairly certain that the sight of the arches (or whatever) triggered some pre-hypnotic suggestion deposted in the child's brain via commercials played during SpongeBob Squarepants, that inflicted an overwhelming need for the McD food. Heck. The Father was literally dragging the kid in while the kid was leaning away in the direction of the McDonalds. In exactly the way drug addicts look when going through rehab. I suspect foul play...

I'm sure it's society's fault we're all victims here in America. Hell you can sue McDonalds for getting fat! LOL that's great some Heffer walked into a McDonalds and sued them. I forgot that they were using mind control 802.11 routers at every McDonalds putting cheeseburgers down your throat! Grr

The case to which you so inaccurately refer was tossed out of court for being without merit. So, no, you cannot sue McDonald's for 'getting fat'.

Not quite true. Supersize meals are available in the UK (and yes, Pulp Fiction fans, we DO call them Supersize ^_^)

Honestly, the main problem does not lie with food, it lies with a lack of exercise. The reason that obesity is less of a problem in countries like the UK is that we tend to walk a lot more (I swear, when I moved to the US I couldn't believe it. You people drive EVERYWHERE!) and our gym membership costs are lower.

Keep the supersize...just give a free gym trial out with them ^_^

Nah, it's with food. Exercise really doesn't burn that many calories unless your obsessive about it.


It's only because you limey bastards have nowhere to drive to.


That makes sense. More places to pickup other guys I guess.

Really? Did they even have a local McDonald's to go to after working the coal mines for twenty-two hours? Just sayin', is all. Did you know my great-grandfather used to haul great slabs of granite across country on his back and never once watched a minute of television?? True story.

No doubt habit has a part to play. I just thought his great moral arguement that his grandparents cooked their meals was silly. Did you know that, among field serfs in the 1100's, 99.99% of meals were homecooked?

However, I'm willing to bet that if those serfs has an affordable McDonalds down the block, they'd have been all over it.

For what it's worth, I used to have more energy when I worked a largely manual job. I was in better shape (not that I'm in horrible shape now) and the work kept a pretty constant fire of calories burning. Most office work is mental and, really, the function of sleep has more to with restoring the brain more than it does restoring the muscles. I'm not saying I never went home tired before, but once my body got used to the work, I went home a lot less tired than I do now after tackling several large mental projects in a day. Of course, I'm older now and have a kid so I won't pretend it's an apples to apples comparison, although even the exhaustion from the child is more mental -- I spend more time listening to him explain Bionicles to me or what such-and-such kid did than I do actively chasing him or anything.

All of which is getting a bit off track anyway. Healthy diet, move around, etc etc. It's all pretty basic stuff.