Typical, the big corporations think fighting the law is cheaper for them than it would be to comply with it and lose the mass of addicts (loyal customers) they have targeted since early childhood. In a perfect world, there would be no "fast food".

No, fast food is a good idea, junk food is the bad idea. I enjoy going to wendy's for a baked potato and yogurt cup, or Subway for a tasty veggie sub.

Baked potatoes are healthy, plain, but loaded with cheese, sour cream (which is not fat free), or butter/margarine (again not the low fat stuff) will still set you back a couple hundred, or more, calories, not to mention the added fat, granted it's no triple cheese burger. As for the veggie sub, the lettuce they use at the sub shops is iceberg, which has no nutritional value, granted it is low calorie and no fat, but it's filler, the tomatoes are bland and flavorless and the rest of the veggies are just about as bad, with all the hormones and pesticides they use to grow them. The yogurt cup, they charge you twice as much as you'd pay in a grocery store, is not fat free, low fat or low calorie, just because it sounds healthy, doesn't necessarily make it so. It's a tactic they use to get us in there, like McDonald's "healthy choice" salads, with "crispy" chicken breast (instead of fried) and "creamy" dressing, sure the salad is healthy, but the chicken isn't, even if it is grilled, because it is grilled in the same place the greasy burgers are grilled, and the dressings are usually high in fat or sugar or both, not to mention the salad is double the suggested portion size, and the dressing is quadruple or more the suggested serving size. These selections can be healthy, if we use our head and think about it, and if these companies where forthcoming with the information we need to make the correct judgment, but because they don't, makes them just a liable as cigarette companies that hid the facts about the dangers of smoking for so many years and lulled so many smokers into thinking it was even healthy (back in the 50s). These companies, McDonalds and Coke especially, are one of the main reasons why the rest of the world hates America and Americans, these two companies are solely responsible for the Americanization of the world, the decline of native cultures, native cuisines and the rise of health problems globally. Sure you could say it's personal choice, and a lot of it is, but when these big companies bully their way into our lives, making the promise of false happiness if we go there and eat there from a very early age. We bug our parents, over and over and over to take us there for that little piece of promised happiness and we soon become early addicts to a junk food diet, eating their weekly or more often, it ruins our health, our taste buds and it's why there are more and more children in this country with type II diabetes (which used to be called adult onset diabetes). These companies are slowly killing us, and trying to defend them shows that the blinders are still on.

The McDonald's here in Colorado have nutritional fact books available in their restaurants, though it's entirely voluntary. However, the hide it on the wall where few people would ever look and it doesn't say "Nutritional Facts" on the cover, it just has a picture of the mountains and the logo.

Wendy's does have some "better" options on their menu though. I'd never try to eat there on a daily basis, but once or twice a month when I'm out of time I'll pick up one of their turkey sandwiches sans mayo and an unsweetened iced tea. It's not too haunting calories-wise.

Choice is huge here. You can choose not eat fast food. Yes, we are lured in by commercials. And even some of the McDonald's ones show little kids getting a healthier meal because the parent can choose apple slices and juice instead of fries and coke for the child's meal. Whatever. I know what I am getting into when I buy a burger. A lot of fat and calories. I choose to do it once in a while. I don't need the calorie info cluttering up the menu to tell me what I already (don't want to)know. But it's the world we live in. Besides that, nobody can sue if the nutritional information is posted in plain view.

OMG... What, is this a BLOG?!?!

Too...

many...

words.........


('^.^,) hehe

LOL

Sorry, I got a bit carried away, not to mention it was a slow day at the office.