Supersize Me
Apr. 28th, 2006 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lls_mutantAfter prompting by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
krislaughs, I watched Supersize Me. It is not often that a movie changes your life, but I have promptly reached several important conclusions:
1.) I'm not eating at McDonald's. Period. Not because I don't like their food, but because what they had to say about kids.
2.) Toby will not eat at McDonald's for a long, long time. Like, until he's a teenager. If we go out for fast food, we will go someplace else.
3.) Toby is not going to watch much television at all, and what he does watch will be on PBS or DVD, where there are no commercials.
The long and the short, what this really drove home for me wasn't so much the effect that McDonald's (and fast food and assorted other things) can have on me, but on my son. The effects on me weren't a surprise. The effects on kids... wow.
So yeah. MRFH review to follow, because this is a biggie.
krislaughs, I watched Supersize Me. It is not often that a movie changes your life, but I have promptly reached several important conclusions:1.) I'm not eating at McDonald's. Period. Not because I don't like their food, but because what they had to say about kids.
2.) Toby will not eat at McDonald's for a long, long time. Like, until he's a teenager. If we go out for fast food, we will go someplace else.
3.) Toby is not going to watch much television at all, and what he does watch will be on PBS or DVD, where there are no commercials.
The long and the short, what this really drove home for me wasn't so much the effect that McDonald's (and fast food and assorted other things) can have on me, but on my son. The effects on me weren't a surprise. The effects on kids... wow.
So yeah. MRFH review to follow, because this is a biggie.
