Quote 1

"You can't link our food to these kids being sick, you can't link our food to these kids being obese, our food is nutritious, its part of a balanced diet, it is good for you" -representatives of McDonald's.

Response:

This quote came from the article "Hardly Happy Meals," by John Clark. The article talked about the documentary "Super Size Me" which was about a man named Morgan Spurlock who ate McDonald's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 21 days. This experiment was supposed to go on for 30 days but all six of his doctors agreed that he had to stop or else he was going to put serious and permanant damage on his body. Throughout the 21 days, Spurlock gained more than 10 pounds, his cholesterol shot up more than 65 points, he had asthma, chest pains, heart palpitations, and sexual dysfunction. This sounds like McDonald's food is unhealthy and damaging to the body. I do not believe that all of McDonald's food is nutrtious and part of a balanced diet. If this were the case, then Spurlock would not have experianced all of these health problems that he did not have before he started the experiment. Also, if the food was so nutrtious and good for the body, why did all six of Spurlock's doctors tell him that he needed to stop the diet before the 30 days was up? This quote is basically a lie to the consumers in the United States. They only care about covering themselves and making money. Telling a lie like this is just going to damage even more people’s bodies because there are people out there that are gullible enough to believe this statement and to keep polluting their bodies with this unhealthy food.