Everyone should boycott fast food establishments for a week to send a message we want healthier food. What do you think would happen? My hope would be that companies would take notice. I hope they would do away with the extra value, super sized, tripple and double cheeseburgers heartattack waiting to happen items. I hope they would start cooking in olive oil. I hope they would shrink serving sizes. Did you know that portion sizes were smaller several decades? Hell, if they shrink portion sizes they should also be able to reduce prices. I hope they would start offering fruit and more salad items. Did you know that a salad at McDonald's isn't really very healthy after the dressing and anyother sugar coated item is put on it?
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Buy salads (they don't MAKE you put on dressing), and grilled chicken?
The fast food industry does not care about your health. They care about profits (bigger sizes, bigger price, bigger profit). If the healthy options were a larger percentage of sales they would offer more of them (If the consumers that care about health boycot sales of these items decrease). Since they do not sell, people have voted with their dollars.
If people want smaller portions don't you think they would order them? Have you priced Olive oil vs Vegatable oil? How many french fry customers want to pay more for their grease?
You are just trying to limit other peoples choices 'for their own good.' I hope you see how wrong that is.
A fact is always better than an ideal
People like fast -food. People like things that are bad for them. That's why this country is considered to be a free country. What do you think about Drinking and Smoking?
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Gosh, on the one hand there are people complaining becuse American are so overweight. On the other hand ther are people that want to be able to do what they want. I honestly don't care if people eat, drink, or smoke themselves to death. More power to them. But, to be told to get a salad at a fast food resturant is a joke. A lot of the things that are put in the salad aren't healthy. My point is that if fast food resturant want to claim to offer healthy alternatives to their menu then those items should actually be healthy!
"to be told to get a salad at a fast food resturant is a joke."
Brother, I'm not even telling you to eat. The healthiest dietary change you can make is not what you eat, but how much. Eat less, or skip a few meals. As long as suficient vitamins are provided low caloric intake extends the life of mamals by as much as 50% beyond their over fed fellows.
What I am telling you is to make your own choices, and leave other people to make theirs. There are plenty of restaurants that offer healthy food. Support them, and encourage others to do the same and they will thrive. Boycoting, protesting, and changing laws (NYC Trans fat ban) to prohibit things you don't want to eat is oppressive. Do you feel good when you take choice from people?
You should look at the contradictory pronouncements of 'experts' when it comes to nutrition. At one time Margarine (at that time hydrogenated transfat) was said to be healthier than butter(fully digestable). Eggs were horrible, then very good for you. The list goes on and on. Both of those 180s are within the past 50 years, and more are coming. Controlled experiments in these areas for the life of the subjects are rare, and take a long time. Most of what you think you know is a theory based on limited evidence.
A fact is always better than an ideal
Your heart is in the right place, but your arguments don't make sense for a number of reasons:
1) To actually make a statement, you would have to convince a considerable amount of people to participate in the boycott, numbering somewhere in the millions.
2) To cut portion sizes would not decrease prices, it would increase them, because it would mean more packaging would be needed for a smaller amount of food sold.
3) As previous readers have stated above, some people do not share your beliefs, and actually enjoy fast food. While I'm not one of them, I know there are plenty of people who would be angry if the fast food industry died out.
4) Even if you somehow succeeded in eliminating fast food restaurants, you couldn't eliminate obesity. I think that human nature is inherently greedy, and if unhealthy people couldn't get fried food from a drive-through, they would just find another source to satisfy their cravings.
I do think that you make a valid point in saying that America is unhealthy though, but we just need to come up with a more reasonable way of transforming our nation's eating habits.
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Where did you get the idea from that I wanted to eliminate fast food resturants? I never stated it and didn't imply it. You totally missed my point! I was simply talking about how to make fast food a little healthier.
I don't understand your arguement about packaging. Are you proposing to but a smaller hamburger into an ever larger box?
I think he's saying that with smaller portion sizes, the proportion of the packaging to the food is greater. This is pretty much inescapable due to simple geometry. We put our food in thin wrappers or boxes, so as the quantity of food goes down, the volume decreases much more quickly than the surface area used to cover the food object.
(Taking a rudimentary object such as a sphere, the volume varies as 4*pi*radius^3 while the surface area varies as 4/3*pi*radius^2. But it works for cubes and extruded rectangles, too, and only gets worse for complex shapes.)
It's a good point but I'm not sure it's the first-order factor in how much packaging fast food chains use. I reckon their sales volume matters most of all.
It's nice to know people will bitch about our country being so fat but not ask for some simple changes in food preparation!
How many of you actually feel things are the way they are and you have no power to change it? I understand that some things we have no control over, but our country is truely messed up. Our health care system is broken, not enough people have health insurance, juvinile diabetes is on the rise due to our nations poor eating habits, the government is hit and miss on helping people after a disaster (Katrina) and our educational system is broken becaue teachers teach to tests only. Do you realize what happens to a person that doesn't have any or adequate healthcare and becomes ill due to their weight? Tax payers flip the bill. This puts a further strain on society. All of the above posts claim that my idea infringes on personal freedom. I agree, it does.If things stay the way they are, not just in the realm of fastfood, our country will slowly kill itself.