LAST February, Morgan Spurlock decided to become a gastronomical guinea pig.
His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and document the impact on his health.
While I don't doubt that this dude's McDonald's-induced health problems gave him much reassurance about his own righteousness, he is mistaken if he thinks he has actually proved something or been successful at anything other than proving he's a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
Spurlock charted his journey from fit to flab in a tongue-in-cheek documentary, which he has taken to the Sundance Film Festival with the hopes of getting a distribution deal.
"Super Size Me" explores the obesity epidemic that plagues America today - a sort of "Bowling for Columbine" for fast food. ...
Despite making dozens of phone calls, Spurlock fails to get anyone from McDonald's to agree to an on-camera interview.
(gasp!) You mean McDonald's doesn't make it their policy to conduct on-camera interviews with every nutcase that calls them? The scandal!
Blah, blah, blah. Yes, let's not blame people's obesity on their own poor choices and lack of restraint. Let's blame it on McDonald's for supplying what millions of people demand. I suppose McDonald's is to blame, for they actually have the audacity to advertise their product.
"People from the food industry were saying, 'You can't link kids being fat to our food - our food is nutritious.'
"I said, 'How nutritious is it really? Let's find out."
Dude, do you not realize that if you ate exclusively carrots for 30 days straight you would likely find yourself as sick as your McD's binge left you? If nothing else, you'd certainly become toilet bound before the 30 days was up. Does that mean that carrots aren't nutritious?
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