Comments on: To all who loved ‘Super-Size Me!’

By: John

John — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:01:14 +0000

I actually interviewed Tom a short while ago on my radio show…. I’ll see if I can find the audio and post it. (Agh. Another chore.)

By: Chris R. (Questions Everything)

Chris R. (Questions Everything) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:39:53 +0000

Way to go. And if you wanna see a good movie, check out Tom Naughton’s ‘Fat Head’. He uses comedy, actual science, and solid facts to prove that Supersize Me is, as he put it, a load of Balogna. It’s a great film, and Tom is all about personal choice. He even said in his film ‘If McDonalds wants to sell me a bucket of fries for fifty cents, and I want to by them, that’s between me and McDonalds’. I have to agree. I don’t eat McDonalds, because I don’t like how the food tastes. That’s it. I don’t think it’s the devil’s work, making people sick. I simply don’t like it, and I exercise my right not to eat it. Isn’t that amazing? A 17 year old is capable of making a decision for himself. Blasphemy.

By: katie

katie — Sun, 22 May 2011 02:01:26 +0000

i love milk be become it is good it helping you working

By: katie

katie — Sun, 22 May 2011 01:59:18 +0000

i love drinking milk

By: katie

katie — Sun, 22 May 2011 01:58:44 +0000

i love drink milk

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:02:07 +0000

Isabel- I believe she did make a film about her experience; see HERE. Unfortunately a film defending a big corporation will never be as high profile as one attacking a big corporation; such is the nature of the world we live in.

By: Isabel

Isabel — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:58:15 +0000

Loved this – that movie pissed me off beyond belief. I wish the woman who had lost weight on her diet would make a movie…at least she would be telling us something we don’t already know!

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:33:27 +0000

Thx for this article.
I tried to watch supersize me on netflix but I’ve learned so much since it first came out.

I hated his girlfriend the most. Her “my crap doesn’t stink” attitude sucks.

By: John

John — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:34:58 +0000

Josh, thanks for the compliments. Feel free to share. Do you have a website?

By: Josh W.

Josh W. — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:13:45 +0000

John , this is awesome. I sure could use you as a guest speaker for my Comm1010-debate. I guess “copy and paste” will have to work for now. You have a great sense of humor. I want to punch these people in the face that can’t take personal responsibility. I don’t know if its because of some entitlement issue, but it is hurting this Nation. Oh and by the way that is pretty pussy to call someone a douchebag and not leave a name or a response.
Keep stamping on the keyboard John, and I will keep reading. Thanks Josh

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:24:01 +0000

your an egotystical douchebag

By: John Wright

John Wright — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:59:41 +0000

Taylor, I’ll ignore your opening ad hominem insult and ask you to support your theory that “fast food isn’t a healthy choice” by finding a way of dealing with the evidence provided by Soso Whaley’s case study (see the OP above). On this page alone, 3 people are claiming to eat at McDonald’s without the gratuitous ill-effects of Spurlock. How do you explain this? (They’re lying? They’re too stupid to know how healthy they are or are not? Or they are successfully incorporating fast food into their diet while maintaining a very acceptable overall healthiness?)

And, I’ll leave you with the central question posed by this post: if people get fat eating at McDonald’s, what device is it that makes the restaurant responsible rather than their own choices?

By: Taylor

Taylor — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:35:37 +0000

I found you to be a…let me think Ass. Everyone is entitled to our own opinion. Yes it /is/ our choice to eat what we want and make those decisions. Morgan was trying to open peoples eyes to what the fast food industry does, trying to make people see that fast food isn’t a healthy choice. ALL fast food industries don’t care about if people are getting fat of their food, they care about their wallets getting fatter from the consumers moneys.

By: John

John — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:00:50 +0000

Julia- Now that's the epitome of a good comment. I've reproduced it here. Thanks!

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:32:18 +0000

I’d say your post talks this socialist, anti-prosperity romp of a documentary right under the table. I saw the movie with my friends, and I found it so inane, insulting, scientifically flawed, and motivated by political bias that I didn’t even know where to begin to burst my friends’ bubble-headed “amens.” I must have sounded like a total idiot to them, and I am very glad to find my opinion very well articulated in your post. Perhaps I should pass it on to them.

This happened when I was in high school, and eating one french fry meant you had no self-respect. Excessive dieting, hating your figure–now, THAT’s self-respect.

I must say, I miss Supersize. Nowadays I’ll approximate it by ordering a large and a small together (and I’ll throw in a salad to cancel some of the guilt). McDonald’s is a weekly treat for me.

– Julia, a “heavy user” weighing 120 lbs at 5’5″. $100 says my BMI is lower than that of our own Sensible Spurlock. Wanna know how I stay thin? I simply don’t stress about my weight! I do what my body says, and refuse to give “experts” any power over my life!

By: John

John — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:46:27 +0000

Rita- “Consumer education.” What were consumers informed about in Super-Size Me? That they’ll get sick if they stuff themselves with nothing but hamburgers and fries for a month?

You’re right; Spurlock did us a public service. :S

By: Rita

Rita — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:30:32 +0000

I think it was a great movie. The corporate interests in this country flood the media with consume, consume, consume messages. It was great to see the movie and see consumer education done in an entertaining way.

I’m a consumer specialist and write the blog The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide.

By: John

John — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:17:55 +0000

Guys- Interesting. But doesn’t it beg the question of where individual responsibility ends and a manufacturer’s responsibility begins? It’s certainly the responsibility of a manufacturer to be truthful about the safety of their product (and that is independently verified in the case of cars for each and every model). Frankly, if a consumer fails to read about the product they’re buying, why should the manufacturer pay for that negligence? Education is an important part of this, of course, because we live in a society where the law sends mixed signals about who exactly IS responsible. I love the ‘Pinto Principle’, though, what a name.

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:23:34 +0000

Dave

It was the Ford Pinto if I recall. I think the type of cynical cost/benefit analysis you refer to actually became known as ‘The Pinto Principle’.

By: Dave Powell

Dave Powell — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:00:55 +0000

“If so, do you also believe that the manufacturers of cars are responsible for the deaths caused while driving them?”

There was a widely reported case of General Motors (i think) producing a car with the fuel tank near the rear bumper which led to some horrific crashes. When they did a cost benefit analysis they decided it was cheaper to pay the compensation claims to the familys of the dead drivers than change the whole design of the car – so in that case yes, perhaps the manufacturers should take some responsibility – this could even be argued for cars with high bonnets that are more likely to kill a pedestrian or cyclist in an accident.

But i’m generally with you on super size me – you might find this podcast on skeptoid.com interesting
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4088