Who agrees with Prince Charles that McDonalds should be banned?

Question

Prince Charles mentioned to a nutritionist that banning McDonalds was "the key" in fighting childhood obesity and diabetes.

McDonald's counter was that he was obviously not aware of the steps they had taken recently, citing an improved menu and nutritional labelling.

Who do you side with? Should we ban McDonalds and other fast food, or put an age limit on it?

Here is a link to the news story for anyone that was interested:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/27022007/140/burger-charles-wants-big-mac-ban.html

Answer 1

Mc.Donalds is righteousl. They are one of the few responsible, multi-national corporations. They give back to every community they operate within. They change their operations according to consumer health fads, even. Trans-fats came along, they stopped everything, changed their suppliers, and now have all non-trans oils. They donate to the schools and stuff in the places they do business. Can you say they same about Burger King? NO! Look at how they exploit and dog the 'little people' in their recent commercials. McD's is one of the few good guys on the global stage. You only wishe the Oil Barons acted this nice! They respond to consumer desires. The Prince of Wales hasn't done His homework! Are you sure it was Charles who said that? That sounds like something one of his less educated children might spout off. When is his kids gonna knock up the Olsen girls? I'm still waiting... How can we create a global hedgeonomy if they won't get them Olsen girls pregnant?I'm sure both Mary Kate and Ashley would be up for dating real Princes...

Answer 2

Neither of your choices. What needs to be done is educate all people about eating balanced meals, which includes all the major food groups in sufficient amounts, and getting regular exercise. If you do this, there's no reason why you can't enjoy a juicy burger or other junk food once in a while.

What's happening in most cities these days is the reverse. People just binge on junk food all the time and lead less active lives, and then wonder why the hell they & their kids are getting obese. Then they go about attacking fast food businesses, instead of realizing that they themselves are to blame for the stupid lifestyle choices they make.

Also, it isn't as if the burgers, colas etc are bad in themselves...its out-of-control, excessive eating that's bad. People don't want to take responsibility for their own actions and think that banning things is the way to go. That's total bullshit. You aren't solving the problem at all, it'll just resurface in another form.

Education and awareness about healthy eating and exercise are the only effective long-term solutions. People who are aware about these things can then make better choices.

Answer 3

McDonald's is simply disgusting food and as for them jumping on the organic waggon that is no more than a sad marketing joke. If people choose to eat such food then that is their choice and should be. McDonald's themselves know how bad the stuff is that they sell and that as people's taste becomes more educated the burger side will decline, that's why a few years ago they bought the up-market sandwich chain Pret a Manger and are busy developing that.

Answer 4

Well everyone is entitled to their opinion,

However, I dont belive that Macdonalds serve unhealthy food. I believe that as parents and customers its our responsibility to make balanced purchases when we buy from MacDonalds.

Yes they have put a lots of efforts in improving their menus.

I dont believe for a second that as an individual Prince Charles has any idea what he is talking about.

For Example My husband and I go to MacDonalds every second week, we take our two boys aged 5 and 3 for Fish -o -fillett meals, we also like and purchase their salad dishes, and even when we buy fish meals we ALWAYS buy side salad tubs which only cost 99p each.

Yes MacDonalds are there to make money, but they do offer products that are healthy provided the customer pays attention when making any purchases.

A person can have a well BALANCED meal at MacDonalds
its a question of PIC and MIX

Try it I am sure that you will LOVE IT

Answer 5

To an extent, yes.
However, McDonalds has good salads and they don't have many calories. At most the salad has 370 calories, and that fills you up.
I don't like the idea of them selling these huge hamburgers or Big Macs or anything of the sort.
The Big Macs have-what? 460 calories? 530? Around that. And Big Macs don't fill you up
I think we should ban CERTAIN foods at McDonalds. McDonalds should only sell their single 270 calorie hamburger. That's big enough. Mainly they should just sell their salads and low calorie salad dressings ( ones under 120 calories ).

Answer 6

I've eaten at food from McDonalds, and in my opinion it is the worst tasting fast food ever (except for the ice-cream and milkshakes, they are delicious!) - I don't understand why people buy the food there in the first place. I think that anything that can last a week in a sealed container without looking like it has gone off should be banned (my personal opinion), it can't be healthy.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

McDonald's restaurants, and actually ALL fast-food restaurants, should be banned from the earth. Major consumers of CHEAP beef, which is a major cause of forests being cut down to make room for them, cattle a major user of water/major polluters of streams/major contributor of methane gas.

People should eat at home with their families.

Answer 9

Dont mind. Their food's overpriced, tastes nasty and the portions are too small.
Just as long as they don't ban fast food itself, being a student I eat it every night.

Answer 10

I bet there are more people using McDonald's that would like to see royalty banned.