Ever notice how Moore picks on corporations, but in half the scenes in this film he's eating food from places like Wendy's. Just an observation.
shareI did notice that, and I love Michael Moore but never understoof why he eats all that junk. A fat liberal, kinda weird. Although, he has lost some weight recently.
shareAre the fast food corporations as bad as the ones he makes films about? I don't think so.
sharekgbatmi6,
I know your post is 3 years old, but I think it needs to be corrected. Virtually all of the fast food corporations are every bit as dirty and corrupt as the corporations Moore attacks in this movie. Everything from union busting, to refusing to offer benefits to employees, to providing filthy working conditions, to offering slave wages, to lying about the health consequences of their product, etc. You should really read the book "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser. It's an eye-opening account of the corruption behind fast food.
By the way, I want to point out one glaring exception to this: In'N'Out Burger, based out of California. This fast food business pays their employees very well (store managers make $100,000 a year), offer healthcare benefits to employees, only uses the highest quality of beef and potato, and keeps prices very low (last I checked the most expensive item on their menu was $2.65). In'N'Out Burger is the model of how every fast food restuarant should operate. The lies from McDonald's about not being able to provide higher employee pay without raising prices is laughable.
It's also part of his "regular joe" persona that he likes to use. Same reason he's wearing ball caps and looking unshaven. The easiest thing for the right to criticize liberals for is being "pointy headed academics who are out of touch with regular Americans" this is him making himself a regular joe from a blue collar background. Same thing when Bill Clinton made a big deal that he was a normal guy who grew up eating McDonalds while Bush Sr was a rich kid who had everything handed to him.
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Yea, because Wendy's uses child labor to make their hamburgers, right? Idiot.
shareI noticed this too! I don't understand why he would do that when his film is about corporations...And the fast food chains are HUGE. They've probably cut lots of workers while they get richer, and many other nasty things.
sharei think he just likes the hamburgers
shareHaha, I agree
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and I just like Nikes made in sweatshops?
no...I'm afraid that's what's known as "hypocrisy"
The ONLY way to stop huge corporations is to stop funding them (aka stop giving them your business)
he probably gets really hungry though
shareMost fast food restaurants are franchise operations - the owner is usually a local person who pays fees to the corporate office. Except for the franchise fees and costs for products, most of the money spent at a Wendy's or McDonald's stays pretty local.
The owner of a Wendy's or McDonald's usually isn't increasing profits by shipping production to Mexico (although there was the McDonald's wanting to have someone in India respond to the drive up window), firing people to increase their profits, or any of the other things that corporations like Nike, Proctor & Gamble, GM, etc. Also, the fast food franchises aren't usually receiving a lot of tax money or tax incentives. Did Pillsbury really need millions of dollars of government money to produce ads in Spanish? Is it ethical for corporations to use prison labor to increase their profits when it's our tax dollars that have to pay for the prison?
re: Nikes
Moore, for quite some time, "famously" wore New Balance shoes. They were made in the US, not Malaysian sweatshops. New Balance now makes shoes abroad.
Incidentally, there are very few places, short of weaving your own fabric and sewing it yourself, that any textile or clothing item can be purchased that wasn't part of exploited labor at some stage.
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