Monday, September 10, 2007
LA Officials Go After Fast Food
One official says the American people do not want fast food, but because they are all over the place they go there. See people do not make choices - they are determined to eat fast food. So if I put up a bunch of baseball card shops - people will just go there. SWEET.
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This is as stupid as those people in NYC who sued McDonalds because it made them fat. True, eating the food probably did make you fat, but nobody put a gun to your head and made you eat their food or made you not exercise.
You feeling okay Nuclear Ambition? I'm detecting some vague libertarian sentiment in that comment.
Don't you know that Mega Corporations like McDonald's have brainwashed you to want to eat there food. Using their infinite money from their greedy profits they have paid off congress with lobbyists to shut down all those cheap and healthy mom and pop restaurants too.
Sheesh what kind of liberal are you emphasizing choice? Basic liberal 101: with corporations in charge their is no choice.
There is a little libertarian in all of us.
I admit that McDonald's has an impressive group of ad wizards working for them.
But come on, this falls under the "stupidity law". If you were stupid enough to REALLY not think you would get fat from eating that stuff all the time, then you are too stupid to sue. Same thing if you burn yourself with HOT coffee. It says HOT coffee on the friggin cup. Burn yourself? Your dumb. No lawsuit.
I'll admit that I have some Libertarian in me if Diatribe admits that he's got a lot of Republican in him.
I might be interestred in the merits of this debate if there weren't a much simpler and less stupid/questionable solution: end corn subsidies. When cornstarch isn't basically free, McBurgers won't cost a dollar anymore, and there will be real competition between healthy and unhealthy food.
Corn subsidies are skewing the market way too much for us to know what people would choose in an actually free market.
Hear! Hear! End corn subsidizes. Yet, one more example of perverse market outcomes when experts attempt to tinker with the incentive structure to control market behavior.
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