Comments on: Little Thoughts About “Super Size Me”

By: alex bartlett

alex bartlett — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:03:59 +0000

and if u have anything to say, kiss my ass or email me at alex_bartlett@hotmail.com, im a tubby,,,,
MCy D’s foverva

By: alex

alex — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:01:55 +0000

me personally, i love mc donalds, i have it all the time and im a big fatty but i dont care cause it tastes good to me!!!

By: robert

robert — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

FFN is an extremely disturbing book. you are justlaughing at th efirst couple of chapters while smiultaneously shaking your head at the strangeness of it all, and then, bam… you hit the section on abbatoirs. ughhhh

By: Tev

Tev — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the book title. I think I will check it out. I liked the movie a lot. The thing that struck me most was how they hook kids into the whole thing. I had never looked at like that before. My son could say Mc Donalds really early and we had no tv, we live in a community with no Mc Donalds. He could still point out the golden arches and know what it was. Scary. My husband and I have always refered to it as Scrawny Ronies, or just Scrawny’s so I’m not even sure where my son got the name. As parents though I think it is our responsibility to teach our children about nurtition. In the end it is our responsibility to keep the safe and healthy. We do this by cooking at home, teaching them how advertising is trying to fool them, being active with them, and keeping the surgar and junk food to a minimum. It is surprising however, how many people are poorly informed about nutrition. I have friends who pack their kids chocolate covered, chocolate chip granola bars for their kids’ lunches as a healthy snack.

Take care,
Nik

By: woojay

woojay — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I saw this film. It left me a bit doubtful too as to exactly how much meaning the whole thing could have. As you said, the methodology wasn’t exactly “scientific,” so to speak. It did get a general point across that McDonald’s food is really yucky and can be bad for you, but the details seemed a bit sketchy. At least I’m more motivated now to avoid fast food.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I agree with you that we wouldn’t expect McDonald’s or KFC to ask each customer how many people they intend to feed with their order, but civil litigation often produces odd results. In an unrelated case, the tobacco companies now have to tell users not to use the product they sell, they have to prove they aren’t marketing it to minors and they now have to pay to help people stop using their product (at least, in New Orleans they do after a recent court case). While the tobacco companies are far more insidious (in my opinion) than the fast food companies and offer a far more dangerous product, the fact still remains that as a result of civil litigation, they are now required — not to make their product safer — but to discourage the very consumers they’re trying to court, from using it.

By: Kim Wells

Kim Wells — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

McGuineapig. I LOVE IT!!!!!

The only part that really disturbed me was the toxic liver. I mean, yes, as you say, weight gain in this scenario is inevitable. But a toxic liver!? Good Lord! This IS supposed to be food, after all, not Monsanto Carpets.

(Although I’m sure someone could find a way to make Monsanto Carpets taste good.)

There’s a scene in Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman’s book Good Omens where “Famine” (incarnation of the four horsemen of the apocalypse) sits in a fast food restaurant with a “meal” with absolutely no nutritional content at all. And is very proud of himself. That’s what that kind of food reminds me of, every single time.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t sometimes take guilty pleasure in eating it. SOMETIMES being the key word here.

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

i read ffn but haven’t seen supersize me yet. i agree with your statement — i’m a little tired of exaggerated polemic, even when it’s polemic with which i’m inclined to agree.

for me, the worst part of the ffn book was the part about how they treat the employees. i mean, the food sucks, but people want it. no one wants to be treated like an animal as an employee.