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It's really just a big old liberal movie


Here goes Michelle Obama again with her best bud Katie Couric hammering fast food services that employ thousands of people. Sure fast food services affect obesity somewhat but these places have been around for decades and people weren't always obese there's also the factors of electronic use and lack of excercise. So there ya go big old fat liberals this movie is just what you should see a film trying to take down fast food services and american jobs at stake

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Why couldn't fast food restaurants serve less unhealthy food (like they did decades ago) and still employ all those people? Where did your argument even come from?

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Back in the 60s the only fast food was burgers and fries, maybe a Chinese buffet. Pizza was Italian restaurants only, other ethnic food started in the 70s. There is far more healthy ethnic and "whole" food today, unless you live in a small town.

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Bũllshït. Ethnic food restaurants have been around forever. Since different ethnicities arrived. They started disappearing in the 1980s and it's only gotten worse.

LordObama wrote: Back in the 60s the only fast food was burgers and fries, maybe a Chinese buffet. Pizza was Italian restaurants only, other ethnic food started in the 70s. There is far more healthy ethnic and "whole" food today, unless you live in a small town.

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If people would buy those things (more healthy food items, whatever that is suppose to be), then they would sell them. Anyway, what exactly do they have that is supposed to be so "unhealthy"? Is there something terribly awful about their hamburger meat that makes it different from some other restaurant where you can buy a hamburger? Or is it the bun? I'm sure the bun is not all that different from one you might buy in a package at the grocery store. The lettuce, the tomato? Oh, gee, maybe it is the "special sauce" that ought to be considered a biological weapon. French fries? Again, virtually every American food restaurant in America sells french fries, so why is McDonalds to blame?

Honestly, I like to eat healthy and try to do it as much as I can at home, which means most of my meals (healthy to me means the least packaged and processed, and balanced food groups). But I see no reason to vilify McDonalds or any other fast food restaurant. I will eat at one of them every once in a while, say, once every three months or so, when for some reason I especially want to grab a meal fast. This would not be my every day, every meal diet, but then, NOTHING is. There is a restaurant that friends from work and I like to go to for happy hour every once in a while…again, about once every couple of months. Should I think my health was being destroyed because I had their discount-priced cocktail, fried calimari, hamburger sliders, or mini pizzas? Everything in moderation. Everyone in the country is going to go out to eat every once in a while. Go to a fast food restaurant, go to a bar, have popcorn and candy at the movie theater, get peanuts at the ball game, periodically grab some junky sticky bun from a vending machine, or whatever. To think we're not is just fooling ourselves. You can't "ban" these things, and it is stupid to even suggest it.

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Having just seen the film, you may be surprised to know that it knocks Michelle Obama pretty hard and lists her as one of the parties who declined to be interviewed.

...hammering fast food services that employ thousands of people. Sure fast food services affect obesity somewhat but these places have been around for decades and people weren't always obese there's also the factors of electronic use and lack of excercise. So there ya go big old fat liberals this movie is just what you should see a film trying to take down fast food services and american jobs at stake


Look at it this way. People used to die in car accidents all the time. Some people realized that if you install safety glass and seat belts in cars, the rate of death in car crashes declined. Auto companies balked because they'd have to spend more money including those features.

But they eventually did and they still manage to employ thousands, if not millions of people.

The only way the sugar industry is ever going to change the way they do business is after enough people die from sugar related health problems. And even then I doubt the sugar companies will stop. We are addicts and they are our dealers.

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Stop shilling for the fast food industry.

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did you even watch the movie because it sounds like you did not? it rips MO pretty hard for starting off with a good idea and then selling out when the fast food industry weighed in on her plans. she also could have been interviewed for the movie and chose not to (this was expressly noted at the end when she was listed with all of the food companies who declined to be interviewed). i was expected it to be a suck up to her and was impressed that it took her to task.

i did find it somewhat amusing that many of the "experts" were, shall we say, less than svelte. the duke professors had more chins than a chinese phone book and the nyu professor looked like she couldn't make it up a flight of stairs before passing out.

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i did find it somewhat amusing that many of the "experts" were, shall we say, less than svelte. the duke professors had more chins than a chinese phone book and the nyu professor looked like she couldn't make it up a flight of stairs before passing out.

At least one of them was honest enough to admit weakness in the face of the hyperpalatable (my word of the year) foods found everywhere.

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I saw the whole movie.

I saw a lot of uplifting Democrats and a lot of blasting Republicans.

It's definitely a hit piece against tradition, values, and conservatism.

They equate having a pop and a bag of chips while watching some NFL as the equivalent of smoking a cigarette.... really?

They claim that 51% of America is obese, okay so lets pretend that number is true, what is the remaining 49% eating that makes them skinny? They're also drinking Pepsi-Cola, having pizza once a week, hamburgers or hot dogs or smokies or subs or wraps or sandwiches everyday, same as the fat people, as a result the evidence is there that it's also genetic.

There were fat people in ancient times, heck there are stories of a guy so fat when he was stabbed by a sword his belly swallowed the entire sword. Ancient times didn't have Coca-Cola Classic or Wendy's around each street corner. Ancient times didn't have Nestle Qwik cereal or Ketchup chips.

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Quit making excuses, you fat feck. Stop eating while you're on the toilet and do something with your life.

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They equate having a pop and a bag of chips while watching some NFL as the equivalent of smoking a cigarette.... really?

Smoking a cigarette won't kill you just like having a pizza, hamburger, or candy bar won't kill. Just like smokers are conditioned to continue smoking, both physically and mentally, our society is being conditioned to keep eating unhealthy foods through marketing and through supplying unhealthy foods which activates the reward centers of the brain. And just like smokers, people who can't quit the habit will eventually end up with severe health issues. The difference here this is targeted at society as a whole because people need to eat to survive, unlike smoking.

There were fat people in ancient times, heck there are stories of a guy so fat when he was stabbed by a sword his belly swallowed the entire sword.

The fat people you speak of were the rich and could afford enough food to that allowed them to be fat.

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Excellent points, Volley2015.

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They claim that 51% of America is obese
No they don't. They said 51% of Americans are sick due to poor diets, and clearly explained that many of them are thin on the outside and look relatively healthy. Stop watching documentaries on mute while browsing Pinterest on your phone.

There were fat people in ancient times
So? Nobody is saying that the sugar companies are solely 100% responsible for every obese person on the planet. What's your point?

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I saw a lot of uplifting Democrats and a lot of blasting Republicans.


Did you see the part how Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign shifted from food to exercise? Did you see how the Dem. Senator or Rep from Minnesota argued on behalf of Schwanns?

They claim that 51% of America is obese, okay so lets pretend that number is true, what is the remaining 49% eating that makes them skinny?


Faulty math. The remaining 49% is not all skinny. Some are at the ideal weight. Some are underweight.

It's definitely a hit piece against tradition, values, and conservatism.


Traditional values would mean farm-to-table, wouldn't it? And people like Sean Hannity argue against nutrition labels. I want to know what I am eating. I can't go on the internet every time I go out to look up a food label.

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Thank you for being the voice of reason in a reply to a caricature of proud American ignorance.
(Yes, I am American, I just recognize the stereotypical American ignorance)

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Yeah because jobs that serve people to work under bad conditions (being paid low) and also serving those same people knockoff food, are not worthy to be in a first world nation. Those places should be in third world countries. Not here!



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