I just found this article on MSNBC from 2006 about KFC getting sued by a guy who was shocked to find out that their food has transfats in it. Wow … shocker. Who could possibly have suspected that?
There are two things that bother me about this kind of thing (ie. people suing companies over trivial crap – like the woman who sued McDonalds because she spilled hot coffee on herself. Coffee? hot? Amazing).
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First, this man who’s suing KFC, Dr. Arthur Hoyte, is a … DOCTOR!! You telling me it never occurred to this idiot that KFC sells food that’s bad for you? Really? Bull shit.
Either he’s the worlds dumbest and worst educated doctor in history, or he scammed them for the money.
In the 1950’s, doctors were telling the public that smoking was good for you, so it was understandable that many people got hooked to the highly addictive drug nicotine and then wanted to blame the companies that lied to them. Fine.
But, we’ve taken this whole sue-nation thing way too far. No one in America has thought fast-food was good for you since … well … ever! It’s called fast food for a reason, people. It is absolute crap. It tastes good because it’s scientifically designed to taste good. But, that’s it. Eat at your own risk.
Had I known that KFC uses an unnatural frying oil, and that their food was so high in trans fat, I would have reconsidered my choices,” Hoyte said.
Sure, dude. Never in your years of medical school did it ever cross your feeble little mind that a big chain fast-food joint might use the cheapest (and unhealthiest) oils around?
If an adult wants to eat fast-food all the time, that’s their business. However, while I’m not against labeling (full discretion is always good), anyone who tricks themselves into believing that eating at a fast-food joint is a healthy idea is moronic.
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The second (and most important) reason for finding this disturbing is that it is part of the American victim-complex that we’ve all seemed to have collectively fallen into.
We hate, as a people, to take responsibility for our actions or our mistakes. Everything is someone else’s fault. Everything.
Are you Fat? It’s all the advertising on TV, or the easy access to fast-food. An Alcoholic? My parents were alcoholics. How about a Rapist? She wore a short skirt in a park, it’s not your fault.
The most successful people in the history of the planet have always known a simple fact of life that the rest seem to want to forget: You have to own your own shit – good and bad.
There is no doubt that bad parenting can add a lot of hurdles to a persons life-path. If you got fat as a kid, then it WAS your parents fault. Period. If you saw your parents constantly drinking, then you are far more likely to head down that path.
However, at some point, as an adult, you have to ACT like an adult. If you are an adult alcoholic, that’s all you. It has nothing to do with your parents anymore. You have the choice. It’s a hard choice, and you’re an addict – no doubt – but, it’s still a choice.
We have the fattest nation on earth because adults act like children. They don’t take seriously the fact that their weight is in their control. It is not the responsibility of the government or big corporations to keep you lean and healthy. It’s your own responsibility.
If you don’t like the way your body is right now, you can change it. If you don’t want to, cool. But, if you do, don’t go whining and crying about all the outside factors “holding you down”. Only you are holding you down.
We are not victims of everything and everyone. We’re all adults … except this guy:
