[quote name='mykevermin']'bout time people start recognizing that about me.
Look. I get your plight. Americans are fat, uneducated pigs. Corporatons are corrupt. Anti-Flag is a profound band. Insert some banal "Crass" stencil here.
You don't give individuals enough credit for the choices they make, plain and simple. One broad brush and one color of paint is all you need to get your point across. All Americans are alike, aren't they? Except you, you're an individual. You know the real story.
Look, kid, I was on your side for a long while. McDonald's reacted to the pressures of the vocal minority who said "MOAR APPLES AND MILK" to McDonald's. They're there. They also expose the absolute *absurdity* of people who did that preaching to McDonald's, because who the
goes to McDonald's for apples? You're going to eat apples or you're not, and McDonald's carrying them doesn't change the underlying mathematics of that very much.
Should people eat *out* less (irrespective of restaurant)? Yes. Should they buy fewer frozen meals and sodas and presevative laden foods? Yes. Is the modern American diet an epidemic? Yes. You're right. But you're also picking the wrong fight; it's not the *existence* of these foods, it's the perpetual consumption of these foods (and economy of these foods, and the pace of the average life, and people's lack of ability to cook, and the invention of the microwave, and HFCS, and blah blah blah).
You're taking one company to task for monumental institutional/national issues, and you're still unable to reconcile that, barring few people in America (urban residents without cars and only access to shitty corner markets that don't sell decent food), this is a widely patterned instance of individual choice, and not structural restriction.[/QUOTE]
I know what you're saying and I've researched these issues immensely. I do make a lot of generalization because, quite frankly, this is such a huge issue that most people happen to fall under the picture I paint. As I said before, America is a nation that prides itself on convenience and things that are cheap. I understand that poverty and lack of education are both huge contributing factors, but those who have an education and know what they're doing have no excuse. It's just pure laziness on their part for not wanting to give up the convenience they're used to.
I wouldn't even use the word choice in a lot of instances. Human's are brainwashed at an early age to like fast food. You understand that a job exists to modify food a certain way in order to be the most appealing to the human taste buds, right? Couple that with advertising, lack of education, and poverty you have one successful business and people living a shorter, more diseased life.
I'm bored, though. I'm gonna go lift weights and run until I pass out so I can wake up and drink my carrot juice and eat my broccoli.