I have Nothing Bad to Say About McDonald

McDonalds sells a lot of meat and potatoes made with bad ingredients but that's not really true.  In capitalism and free enterprise supply and demand fuel each other but in this instance, today, its the demand that fuels the supply.

I have to give credit to McDonalds for offering nutritious alternatives to their consumers.  The problem is that most of us demand the burgers and fries with the bad ingredients and out control portion sizes with largely empty calories.  If McDonalds didn't meet the demand WE create then McDonalds would go out of business.  It's not as if McDonalds would suffer any if they didn't create healthy options on their menu.  But they do give us the healthy options anyway and they should be given credit for it.

Critics are so quick to blame McDonalds for selling so much unhealthy food with bad ingredients.  What about the responsibility of the consumer?  Are we responsible for what we put into our mouths or is McDonalds responsible for what we put in our mouths?  Is putting the blame on MacDonalds an admission to losing our power in our own lives to MacDonalds?  Wouldn't it be much more liberating if we took responsibility for our own choices rather than relinquishing all our responsibility and our power to McDonalds?    Wouldn't we be in better hands if we depended more on ourselves and less on MacDonald and government?

Most Americans are not even aware how much fat or how many calories are in a McDonalds burger and fries.  This information is literally right under our noses with every order on the wrapper, the place mats if we eat inside, the McDonalds website and there is even a 1 800 number with nutritional information.  Again I must give McDonalds credit here.  The problem isn't that McDonalds isn't making the nutritional information very easy and plentiful to come by.  The problem is Americans are VERY arbitrary eaters.

I have a two yes or no questions for you.  Don't under estimate their importance because odds are extremely favorable they will be yes or they will both be no.

1. Are you an arbitrary eater?
2. Are you unhealthy?

The opposition version of the same two questions...

1. Do you pay attention to Good nutrition?
2. Are you healthy?

If we demand McDonalds and other fast food chains to change first we've got to change.  We are a very arrogant society demanding McDonalds to change without demanding the same from ourselves.  If we don't change but McDonald does change (everyone mistakenly and feels McDonalds should change first) they will simply go out of business while another fast food chain very happily takes over as the bad meat and potato king of our lives.  If we change first, then McDonald and other fast food chains will change because they are in business to supply our demands. That's how they make money!  It's also the way we get healthy, or not.

Tom
Passion Fitness