A shocker that no-one has come on to disagree!

Specifically for this film trailer–
1) If a cut happens on a line in real life, the line is stopped, and all meat in the area is condemned. That means it is not used in any way. The equipment is then washed with high pressure HOT water and sanitized with commercial sanitization materials.
2) Sad cows. The worried looks on their faces. Aww. I’m going to eat them. As for the cow with the heifer, breeding stock are not used in processing.

It kills me when people sat “you need to educate yourself” when what they really mean is “You need to come around to my way of thinking.”. This is thinly veiled animal rights propaganda, and I’m sure PETA is not far from it. Did you see the poor bunny getting run over by the evil meat eater?

Don’t need to read a book or watch a film on this one. We have first hand knowledge from real life. Don’t want to eat meat. Don’t. But don’t try to guilt everyone else with fictionalized accounts of a highly regulated industry.

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It seems that the weird and wonderful world of Leftism continues to churn out it’s intellectual mush. Much has been said of the new “heavy on polemic, low on actual substance” documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael “Bend the Facts” Moore. But there has been an even more bizarre show released recently. The cinematic treat I refer to is called “Supersize Me,” but I was simply too bemused by the content to remember the name of the buffoon who made. It certainly wasn’t Ronald.

Basically the documentary is anti-McDonalds (films made by such types are always anti-something – war, Bush, Blair, America, the West, criminal justice, capitalism, guns, property, wealth, blah de blah de blah). In an effort to persuade us just how bad McDonalds food is for our health, some eegit decided to live off McDonalds meals for an entire month, always ordering a supersize meal when it was offered to him. By the end of the month his physical health had greatly deteriorated; he had put on a significant amount of weight, and his mental state had been worsened (if indeed such a thing was possible).

But his efforts were surely not a total waste of time. We’ve learnt a very valuable lesson, haven’t we, kids? We now know what happens to any naughty little boys and girls who eat McDonalds meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner – they get sick and fat.

Well, Duh! I have to ask: Who is this film actually made for? Are there really people alive on planet earth that need to be convinced that eating junk food morning, noon and night, averaging 5000 calories a day – that’s double the recommended daily allowance for an adult male – is a bad thing? If people are so stupid then it must be time to ‘trim the herd.’ And what better way to do it than allow such people to eat until they pop.

McDonalds is a favourite whipping-boy. Not only does it sell food high in fat to those who can barely fit through its double doors, but also, even worse, it’s a large, successful, global chain. I suspect that the real reason behind this film is not a deep concern for the health of the nation but is rather another chance to take a shot at a large global corporation for it’s gross sin of, well, being successful. Leftists never did like large successful corporations very much. They make money, and money is an evil unless it’s being ‘redistributed’.

Let’s face it the charge that McDonalds makes people fat or damages your health is grossly misleading and inaccurate. McDonalds does not make anyone fat. If someone eats a burger from McDonalds each week then their health or waistline isn’t going to be affected one iota (well, unless, of course, the burger consumed is 20 square feet). But, obviously eating 10 or more burgers will cause us to move up a dress or trouser size or two. There is one primary reason why people get fat – it isn’t because they are brainwashed by corporate advertising and it isn’t because they are genetically addicted to Big Macs. It’s simply because they continue to stuff their fat faces without moving except to press buttons on the TV remote.

It might also come as a surprise in certain quarters to hear that it is possible to get fat without going to McDonalds. In fact, people in the year 2004 (where McDonalds restaurants abound) are actually consuming fewer calories than they did a couple of decades ago (no McDonalds in sight). Even more shocking is the fact that a person can get fat without eating food that is high in fat. Our physical and mental health, along with our waistlines would not be in terribly good shape if we were to dine on nothing but pasta morning, noon and night for a whole month, and pasta is regarded as relatively healthy food. Come on, has Atkins taught us nothing? Our bodies are fat making factories, and we don’t need to eat a lot of fat in order to get very fat.

What a pity the maker of this documentary didn’t just do us all a favour and eat arsenic for a month – supersized portions of it of course. As for me, I’m off for a burger and fries.

Stephen Graham

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SG