Obesity is a growing problem in the USA. What do you think, should fast food restaurants warn their consumers on the dangers of their products, sort of like how cigarette companies are forced to?
"Thompson made his remarks as lawyers were preparing to file new lawsuits that accuse McDonald’s Corp., Burger King and other drive-through chains for the rising obesity rate in the United States. Nearly 2 out of every 3 adult Americans and 15 percent of children are overweight or obese, Thompson said."
“Banzhaf and other lawyers claim that food companies, just like cigarette producers in the past, are not properly warning consumers that their products may be addictive.”
Eating fast food is not the real problem. It's lack of exercise that makes one fat. Like for example, McDonalds serves salads as well. Why don't obese people pick salad over a Big Mac?. It's the choice they make in their lives.
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*Originally posted by funguy: *
Eating fast food is not the real problem. It's lack of exercise that makes one fat. Like for example, McDonalds serves salads as well. Why don't obese people pick salad over a Big Mac?. It's the choice they make in their lives.
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This is true. Lack of excercise and bad choice of diet is part of the problem as well. However, what the article is saying is that fast food can be addictive, in the same manner that nicotene is, and companies are not warning their consumers about this danger.
Even the salads they serve in macdonalds are probably covered in gunk. but yes it's down to the choices people make, they don't have to go there.
Macdonalds and the rest should come clean about what they put in their food though, there's some book out called Fast Food Nation which is supposed to be a pretty shocking expose of what goes in.
These fast food places are in no way responsible for the obesity. It's ridiculous to suggest that are addictive, without providing sufficient scientific proof that fast food contains addition-causing chemicals in the same way that tobacco contains nicotine.
Effectively, from what I see, the whole vase against fast food restaurants is that they are too convenient and their food tastes too good.
Why should they give warning about their food anymore than a Pakistani restaurant should serve fatty foods with a warning?
McD started serving salad after the big obesity fiasco ... otherwise the motto was, the more oily & the more mayo on it, the better the burger will be.
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*Originally posted by mAd_ScIeNtIsT: *
These fast food places are in no way responsible for the obesity. It's ridiculous to suggest that are addictive, without providing sufficient scientific proof that fast food contains addition-causing chemicals in the same way that tobacco contains nicotine.
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That's another thing about Americans, not only are too many of them lard rivals to Adnan Sami, they tend to throw lawsuits at anything that moves - maybe because it moves quicker than them?
