McDonalds

CopperPlate_2

In the main, it's all about choice. Adults are free to choose whether to eat at a fast food/junk food outlet if they like - most have the capacity to understand what the 'food' they are putting into their bodies is likely to do to them, and every now and again it's not so bad....if you don't think what goes into it. I don't think I'll ever eat a chicken nugget or anything from McD, BK, KFC or any other abbreviated fast food chain again.

We really don't know what goes into food, not specifically from fast food outlets, but any processed stuff. If you stop and start reading the ingredients in processed meals from supermarkets, it's like twenty different unpronouncable ingredients going into a strawberry yogurt that should only contain milk, strawberries, cream and whatever is needed to turn milk into yogurt!

Children, on the other hand, are totally different and are so easily manipulated by the marketing of these companies - 'pester power' is great business for them.

Programmes like Supersize Me - although unwelcome publicity for the corporations and a bit extreme, are necessary to demonstrate that there are two sides to every story and it shouldn't depend on how much money you have in order for that story to be told or heard.

needmoney

Please take alook at 'Harmful additives' on the Vent board. Thanks all ideas and help appreciated.

needmoney

Also have a peep here for McD

http://mcdoof.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums

girleight@

I worked in McDonalds and someone came in and said they paid for a milkshake and didnt get one. They were lying, the manager knew this but gave them one anyway in case they made trouble as they looked a bit drunk.

kazzy

Just looked at that website.What an utter disgrace.I am a broadminded person but the people who post on here are a real bunch of nohopers!

SidB_2

The general concensus here seems to be that junk food is bad for you. An issue already raised here is that some adults don't have the backbone, or dare I say intelligence, to refuse to buy their kids this junk. We're all being manipulated by MacDonalds, and the only reason that they've changed their food is because of the negative publicity they have received. Their new "healthy" food range, although not as bad as the old menu, is still not acceptable. Why do they add sugar to their salads ?

On a recent trip to France the kids menu at one of the restaurants was simply smaller servings of the adult menu. My eldest daughter was most impressed as she's at that age when body image and healthy living is an issue.

Why is it that countries like France and Spain, and even in some parts of the USA, have a different attitude to food quality ? I think this is part of the reason that some people emigrate.

Isn't it time that somebody started a real campaign to improve food in this country. Jamie Oliver has raised the issue of school dinners, so how about a "People's Revolution" about the rest of our diet ?

VixxAnn

SidB wrote:

The general concensus here seems to be that junk food is bad for you. An issue already raised here is that some adults don't have the backbone, or dare I say intelligence, to refuse to buy their kids this junk.

Isn't it time that somebody started a real campaign to improve food in this country. Jamie Oliver has raised the issue of school dinners, so how about a "People's Revolution" about the rest of our diet ?

I'm with you there SidB - but what can you do

Jamie Oliver has done an absolutely fantastic job - but he cannot carry the responsibility for transforming the eating patterns of the UK on his own shoulders (have you heard they want him to transform hospital food now!)

I don't believe that the Labour goverment will do much to change school dinners anyway - they certainly haven't said they will ban the C**P they are allowed to feed them.:mad:

I find it so frustrating that companies keep churning out new products for kids with loads of colourful advertising - and the food is just not fit to be eaten. Kids breakfast cereals (have you looked how much sugar and salt???) Crisps, so many processed foods with TONNES of sugar, salt, artificial additives. Yet parents keep buying this stuff - why??

This one really gets my back up I'm afraid:o

culpepper

If we all avoided the rubbish,they wouldnt be able to keep selling it. Fact is, some people just cant be bothered.Anything for an easy life.
If people wean their kids on junk, thats what their kids want, and once they are aclimatised to junk, real food tastes too alien.
Kids dont know what is best for their health ,their parents have to make the decision for them and sometimes that means they will be called 'mean' .Well Id rather be 'mean old mum' with healthy kids than 'kind' old mum with ill kids.

jockettuk

mcdonalds and all the others are ok as a treat.. a well done for doing good at school.. etc.. once a month etc...if people want to live on junk food thats up to them but its nice to treat your kids now and again ..

Debt_Free_Chick

Culpepper

I agree with you entirely. It's not for the Government to regulate and legislate for everything we do. Before we know it, they'll be regulating our toilet habits!!!

It's the consumers that drive junk food. Simply don't buy it. No right minded business person would continue to push a product that no-one bought.

On a similar issue, complain - nicely. Give the supermarkets & food retailers feedback. Tell them you want e.g. more local, fresh, seasonal, organic vegetables. Tell them you don't want tasteless red cotton wool balls labelled as Spanish Strawberries in December. This is so easy to do via the Contact Us buttons on retailers' websites.

I strongly believe that WE (consumers) have the power here. Yet all too often we ask someone else to "do something about it". For heavens' sake, use the power you have. Start lobbying now -direct to the greedy retailers and food producers!