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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| When the hell are they getting rid of their Big Tasty promotion? They've had this thing now for 1.5 years. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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I just wonder when people will figure out that you can't eat a bunch of crap and not exercise and expect to stay thin.
I swear some people are still stuck thinking they are in high school...when you had gym class several times a week to get thte heart pumping...or at least moving...
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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In small Canadian and American suburbs, where the only place to eat in a 2km radius is your local McDonalds (not even a grocery store in sight), that same 2km radius will have lots of fat, unhealthy people. They just don't know any better. They're uneducated, or lack transportation to a place where they can eat normal food. |
I've never seen a place like that. So there are small suburbs where there's a McDonald's every 2 km but not a single grocery store? Usually in suburbs people have cars and can at least drive to a grocery store. I don't know many people who move to the suburbs lacking a car. |
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Last December the Brookings Institution published a report showing that from Las Vegas to Boise to Houston, suburban poverty has been growing over the past seven years, in some places slowly, in others by as much as 33 percent. "The enduring social and fiscal challenges for cities that stem from high poverty are increasingly shared by their suburbs," the report concludes. It's a problem some may assume is confined to the ragged fringes of so-called "inner ring" suburbs that directly border cities, places where the housing stock is older and from which many wealthier residents long ago departed. But this isn't the case. "Overall...first suburbs did not bear the brunt of increasing suburban poverty in the early 2000s," notes the Brookings report, which found that economic distress has spread to "second-tier suburbs and 'exurbs'" as well.
The result is a historic milestone that has gone strangely ignored: For the first time ever, more poor Americans live in the suburbs than in all our cities combined. |
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| But the suburbs also have their disadvantages, among them the fact that getting anywhere generally requires a car. There's no public transportation system in most outlying suburban areas, which is why the people who show up at the food pantry at the Red Cross in Rockingham County often carpool to get there, cramming one person each from four or five families into a single vehicle to save gas. |
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070423/press |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| You guys need to read the book "Fast Food Nation" |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
| You guys need to read the book "Fast Food Nation" |
Yup. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
| You guys need to read the book "Fast Food Nation" |
I did. I didn't see an over all problem with the fast food industry. The meat packing industry was another matter. The meat packing industry isn't much better than since Upton Sinclair days. However, McDonald's is an international corporation and the sins of the American meat packing industry are not the sins of the Canadian or European industries. Sears should stop buying from child labor factories in Vietnam. And McDonald's America should stop buying from bad meat packers. Okay. I'll buy that argument.
Much of the rest of the book vis a vis the fast food industry was tossing out a bunch of anecdotes about low paid staff robbing their own restaurants. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Alyallen wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| brento1138 wrote: |
In small Canadian and American suburbs, where the only place to eat in a 2km radius is your local McDonalds (not even a grocery store in sight), that same 2km radius will have lots of fat, unhealthy people. They just don't know any better. They're uneducated, or lack transportation to a place where they can eat normal food. |
I've never seen a place like that. So there are small suburbs where there's a McDonald's every 2 km but not a single grocery store? Usually in suburbs people have cars and can at least drive to a grocery store. I don't know many people who move to the suburbs lacking a car. |
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Last December the Brookings Institution published a report showing that from Las Vegas to Boise to Houston, suburban poverty has been growing over the past seven years, in some places slowly, in others by as much as 33 percent. "The enduring social and fiscal challenges for cities that stem from high poverty are increasingly shared by their suburbs," the report concludes. It's a problem some may assume is confined to the ragged fringes of so-called "inner ring" suburbs that directly border cities, places where the housing stock is older and from which many wealthier residents long ago departed. But this isn't the case. "Overall...first suburbs did not bear the brunt of increasing suburban poverty in the early 2000s," notes the Brookings report, which found that economic distress has spread to "second-tier suburbs and 'exurbs'" as well.
The result is a historic milestone that has gone strangely ignored: For the first time ever, more poor Americans live in the suburbs than in all our cities combined. |
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| But the suburbs also have their disadvantages, among them the fact that getting anywhere generally requires a car. There's no public transportation system in most outlying suburban areas, which is why the people who show up at the food pantry at the Red Cross in Rockingham County often carpool to get there, cramming one person each from four or five families into a single vehicle to save gas. |
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070423/press |
Okay. But where is a suburb without a grocery store but a McDonald's every 2 km? |
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