Be patriotic: get fat!
• Health Issues
Spokesmen paid for their words by Coca-Cola, Wendy’s and Tyson Foods will happily lie to you about the effect eating too much of their clients products may have on your and your children’s long term health.
No one disputes your right to get fat and die. But is this what you want for your sons and daughters?
Somehow I can’t see Adams or Jefferson gulping down a food artifact as dismal as a Big Mac.
The first step is to recognize the industry-financed campaign against doing anything for the cynical exercise it is. Remember, nobody is proposing that adult Americans be prevented from eating whatever they want. The question is whether big companies will have a free hand in their efforts to get children into the habit of eating food that’s bad for them.
Paul Krugman, Girth of a Nation