Ronald McDonald Making Kids Fat?

At a stockholders meeting for McDonald's, a proposal that the role of the fast food chain in childhood obesity be examined was rejected. Ana Kasparian and Michael Shure discuss.

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• McDonald's
• HappyMeal
• Nutrition
• Information
• Fast
• Food
• Fat
• Calories
• Carbs
• Kids
• Childhood
• Obesity
• Overweight
• Parents
• JoeCamel
• Cigarettes
• Stockholders
• YoungTurks
• Tyt
• AnaKasparian
• MichaelShure

[fiendkracken1]

Isn't strange that the audio for the advertisements are clear and loud but the actual SHOW portion of TYT audio is like listening to a whisper even at full volume?

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[melekatik]

Sorry Michael Shure I can barely hear your voice here

[sweethotcandy29]

McDonalds, food manufactures, advertising agencies, and parents share responsibility in childhood obesity. There should be just as many ads about health eating as there are fast food ads.

[Snakepliskinist]

Every generation starts to feel insecure as they age and feel they are being surpassed. Thanks to our dismal educational system and McDonalds, I can feel smugly superior to the tubby, semi-literate mouth-breathers that comprise the nation's future. My only worry is that instead of supporting me in my retirement that they'll eat me.

[JediSoup1234]

@progrockable, you should calm down. I didn't say the companies are all to blame and we shouldn't take personal responsibility. You are going on a rant about things I'm not claiming. And although I don't agree with Eric Schlosser on everything the book was fairly informative.

[progrockable]

@JediSoup1234, that guy is and always will be a leftist, government-control, anti-corporate shill for the Obamanauts. Then, what does he do? He sells the film rights to his book to Morgan Spurlock, who makes a movie that in no way resembles the Schlosser book and who continues the rant. It's funny that personal and parental responsibility has taken a back seat to......"it takes a village". Bull**it.

[progrockable]

Speak Up, Michael! Have the courage of your convictions, if you really think customers can't be trusted to make their own eating decisions. Stop sounding like a bored, tired teenager reciting Milton in class in the afternoon!!!

[ThePGeraFuckingSucks]

I don't eat at McDonald's (only once in a blue moon, that I go there, and usually it's just for a coffee) But blaming them for your child being fat when you are not responsible enough for what YOUR children eat is no better than those parents who use TV as a glorified babysitter, then turn around and blame TV because their child is acting up.

[ThePGeraFuckingSucks]

@jayden506 yeah, but it's the parents fault, not the establishments

[ThePGeraFuckingSucks]

@StuntedSnail true, but even some "real" food today is almost as bad if not worse than what you get at fast food joints, espcially that precooked frozen crap. Even most fruits and veggies today are GENETICALLY MODIFIED. Your only safe bet is to buy ORGANIC foods

[ThePGeraFuckingSucks]

Pointing your fingers at McDonald's (or any other face food joint) for child obesity is like pointing your fingers at TV for children being unruly, when parents shouldn't be using TV as a babysitter. It's easy to point your fingers at individuals and saying You're responsible for this, that, and the other thing. PARENTS should take more responsibility for what their children eat

[StuntedSnail]

its not "ronald mcdonald" making the kids fat, its their parents. If you can take your kids to a mcdonalds and buy food, im pretty sure you can go to a grocery store and buy some real food for half the price.