Blame it on McDonald's or us?

Question

I am personally tired of hearing about people sueing restaurants because of their increasing weight gain.

What person now out here still don't know that MC Donalds is not a healthy food to eat everyday? When are we going to take responsibility for own actions? Why must we blame everyone else but ourself?

I know that damn near all the restaurant have "Super size" this and that but it up to us to say "NO". By sueing we are basiclly saying that we are not strong enought to say no and instead of getting help let's just sue and get paid and spend our money from the lawsuit on food! I'm not saying that it easy to say no, I'm saying that you need to get some help don't blame others for what you have done to your body!

America is the Fattest Country today! What does that say about us?

Answer 1

Exactly! Everyone loves to shout about their personal rights, it's about time people started understanding their personal responsibility.

Answer 2

I agree with you. It's our responsibility to find out what good nutrition is and how to make healthy choices. If we must eat at McDonald stop getting the supersize or triple burgers. We need to eat more vegetables and drink more water. Soda is loaded with sugar. Exercise four times a week at least. Turn off the TV when MTV and violent shows are on and educational programs or sit down and do homework with the kids. Have the kids read about the dangers of smoking and if you smoke don't let them see you do it.

Answer 3

IM fat and I blame my self for that. The people who sued the Fast food chain and the tobacco companies should stop and think how stupid this is. Talk about wasting time and money! America is a good country but the fact that its a Fattest country may leave a mark. not to mention the sueing the chain part...

Answer 4

I'm with you 100%. I also at one point in my life, was gaining weight due to fast food. At the time i was nieve to the fact that it was my fault, only living on a fixed income. And it jsut so happen that Mc Donald's was inexpensive and it filled you up. However i joined the U.S. Army and that was the end of that. But i also don't understand how people's morales have gone so far down the drain that they have to stoop as low as sueing law-obiding companies for their own undisciplined minds/actions.

Answer 5

It's partly there fault for selling and partly our fault for buying. The problem is that the food we get so fat on is really unhealthy but delicious and we can't seem to walk by a KFC, McDonalds etc. without going in and buying whatever we want. As far as I'm concerned, I only have a McDonalds a month and nothing else. It's a treat we can enjoy but don't usually get fat. If you have it regulary then It almost all your fault unless you really can't see what it's doing to you! All they care about is money, your money and if it sells well they couldn't care less how unhealthy it is. As long as they have your money your are just a name on a list who has given them a bit of money.

Answer 6

You are so right. Nobody makes us eat fast food. And I don't think it is right to sue them, If we eat there all the time and gain weight. We could spend the money at the market and buy healthy foods.

Answer 7

It says more about the courts and the justice /legal system than it says about any of us, "little people"

I can happily eat pizzas and supersize things, heck I can do it often. I just make sure to increase physical activity or limit other bad food to balance it.

People trying to make a quick buck and refuse to take responsibility for their actions, but once one person does it we all want a piece. And why not

Answer 8

I'd like to first address the last question: America's fatness is a product of our comfort. While the rest of the world struggles to survive, we earn relatively comfortable livings in the service industry often behind a keyboard. Our sedentary lifestyles combined with the ability to ponder existential questions—and subsequently come up empty--leaves us unfulfilled, with a hole where the better part of our soul should be. One of the ways we try to fill that hole is food (among many others from religion, to gambling, to sex, and, not least of all drugs). But food is the easiest and least stigmatized--after all, we need it to live. But this, in my mind, doesn't leave McDonalds off the hook; they all but created the nutritional culture in the Western world and as such are a good deal responsible for the shape of this country--the people they taught to eat.

I have to preface this by saying that ultimately, as with contemporary cigarette smokers, there is enough information available to start making better choices, that's not necessarily a luxury former generations had, which no doubt impacts contemporary dietary choices—the generation ignorant of the truth raised the current generation (cigarettes and Big Macs are ingrained in our culture, it doesn't justify the results of their existence, but rather indicts those who propagated a harmful lie that is just now being discovered). McDonalds is not in the free and clear in my mind.

McDonalds is so huge they are part of the fabric of American culture. When they change, the fast food paradigm (they created) shifts. With this power comes responsibility, not merely to the bottom line but to the welfare of the public they serve and profit from.

The food they serve is essentially poison; it is never ideal nutrition and even when consumed in moderation it isn't healthy. When you sell a product, like tobacco, that will destroy the health of the user in any consumption capacity, it seems to me the question of liability isn't quite open and shut (I say this even as I personally laugh at the landmark lawsuits of which you speak).

Company's like McDonalds are taste makers. The American appetite is in part (it can be argued "in large part") created by the way they set up portions, menu, and ingredients. I really place the blame on McDonalds with regard to their current and past customers eating habits. But it is the responsibility of today's parents, knowing what we now know, to prevent their children from starting the McDonalds habit (easier said than done when you consider McDonald ability to bombard America’s youth with promotions specifically geared toward them, from happy meals to hip hop inspired music in its omnipresent TV commercials).

If a car can be unsafe at any speed (and a public outcry is heeded to cease it's production so some fool doesn't buy it), why can't the same principle apply to McDonalds--a company that gets to hide the fact that it poisons people under the banner of providing sustenance.

There are a million other reasons McDonalds is either clearly guilty of poisoning the country (or at least come off as highly suspicious), but there’s no need for conspiracy theories: McDonalds business practices, the ones we can all see, are enough of an indictment.

Answer 9

people blame the growing problem on obesity on mcdonalds or the various fast food chains but in my opinion, its really a matter of choice.. personally, i know how hard it is to say no to certain foods you like to eat but its really a matter of self discipline and control to not give in to the temptations... after all, if there weren't mcdonalds, would people still not stuff themselves full with other foods besides?

on the other hand, i did do some research before for a deabte regarding whether or not mcdonalds and other fast fods are making us fat and it was disconcerting to find that there is a sort of chemical in fast food that makes people crave for more of these food... i'm not very certian with the details of this snce its been about a year since that debate but suffice to say, whether or not there is this chemical or not, its really up to us on what we put into our mouths

quoting my health/p.e. teacher: you eat to live, not live to eat

Answer 10

I agree with you totally. There is something seriously wrong with the overindulgence of food today.
Here's a story:
My ex-boyfriend that I knew for 13 years of my life became addicted to heroin after a back injury that put him on strong opiate medication. He was the classic addict, lying for money for drugs, stealing money for drugs, losing jobs, getting in vehicle accidents...
My soon to be husband is in the morbidly obese category of the BMI scale. Just like my ex, he doesn't think that he eats (uses) in excess, he lies about what he eats, we've not been able to pay bills in order to feed him, he gets defensive (even with doctors) when approached about him eating habits and quantity.
I really think there is a serious "drug" problem in the US and it's food. People shouldn't be able to sue McDonalds or any other establishment that serves food, just as a heroin addict can't sue his/her drug dealer for making them addicted to the drug. It's ridiculous. We need food recovery treatment centers. And maybe to wire their jaws shut!