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Because the world won't work if everyone is selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Now, if the CEO of McDonalds was FORCING people to eat unhealthy food this would be a problem and the kid would have a point. The kid has no point however and, being a kid, is oblivious to that fact.
I think a lot of people are missing the point of the article. I would assume that the family in this article does avoid McDonald's, but the fact remains that McDs heavily markets to children. Not all children have parents who know (or care) about nutrition, so these kids grow up hooked on the junk food that has been pushed on them via advertisements, toys, and other gimmicks.
I would agree with you, except for the fact that kids generally have no chance of eating McDonald's (or at least not enough to get hooked) unless their parents take them. It's not like with TV's influence, which is also a debatable matter. The influence cannot even take place without the parent making it a point to drive them up there and buy the food on a semi-regular basis.
Maybe a lot of people at McDonald's see it the same way. They recognize that, while they do market to kids, it's the parents who choose just how often the kids eat from there.
Kids should ask if their parents if they want them to be healthy.
Standard parent's response: "Ask McDonald's, dear. They're the ones making the food and offering it to you through the television set. I'm just buying it for you, because what other choice do I have?"
I'd like to know what you would do if YOU were the CEO of a major fast food chain, and what you would have said to this little girl? How would you balance your responsibility to share holders / franchise owners with an ever-growing concern about children's health and obesity? Is junk food so deeply entrenched into our culture that there is no turning back?
I'd explain to the little girl how healthy eating starts with personal responsibility. Eat McDonalds one day a week as a treat and then go exercise. You can easily eat McDonalds and be healthy.....just takes personal responsibility.
I'd like to know what you would do if YOU were the CEO of a major fast food chain, and what you would have said to this little girl? How would you balance your responsibility to share holders / franchise owners with an ever-growing concern about children's health and obesity? Is junk food so deeply entrenched into our culture that there is no turning back?
As the CEO, I would have asked the kid (the question was obviously planted by his liberal parents) why he does not have the discipline to control his eating habits.
Are cookies, cakes, bacon, and snack foods evil? No- they were around when I was a kid and few people were fat.
We are in an age in which no one accepts personal responsibility (see the recent Obama administration revelations of "not knowing" anything). That kid should be spanked and sent to bed without a Big Mac and fries.
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