fries

We’ve laid off the fast food bigtime this year…. More-so for financial and lifestyle reasons rather than big-picture social reasons.

After watching Super Size Me last night – my occasional pining for a Big Macâ„¢ or Filet-o-Fishâ„¢ will be less painful.

The documentary is more like an ethnography about American Eating Habits and our food industry. The director eats nothing but McDonnald’s. three times day, for thirty days…. Duh- his health goes to hell. The side tangents and interviews were more enlightening than the 30-day binge – but as far as presenting a case – it helped tie the whole thing together.

It’s the new old story of personal vs. corporate responsibility.

I catch myself pondering this stuff and my eyes go squinty and I wind up somewhere in the middle on the issue…

One one had I want to say to the people suing the burger-chain: “Hey lardass, put the fries…. DOWN”.

But on the other hand – there’s something to be said for the sheer financial force behind these corporations, who – want to increase profit like ANY business, will use billions of dollars to market to children, lobby the government and mold public perception.

If anyone should “sue” anybody – it should be the the American people suing some faceless unnamed force that’s turned the most of us into lemmings, incapable of making informed decisions either through sheer laziness or outright misinformation.

As in F 9/11, we ran to the internet to see what rebuttals where out there… As expected, we found a an entire site dedicated to discrediting Super Size Me.

Here’s where it gets scarry kids.

We dug deeper…. Thanks to a blogger named Brian Flemming for doing the footwork which reveals the source for the Super-Size-Me-Con website: A company called DCI GROUP – a republican lobby and PR Firm closely connected to the Bush White House.

Anyone creeped out yet?

Anyone starting to connect the dots?

Anyone think I’m blogging?