BK burgers

June 1, 2004

I see your point, here, Fraggle that it may cloud the issue. But I do not agree that ads are the cause of these children not getting adequate nutrition. From my experience in the school system and dealing with parents it is clearly values and culture and education that determine this. The parents simply do not care enough. I, and probably you as well, grew up with the same ads. I see them all the time...yet my parents made different choices.

Sorry, I don't buy that advertisments have that much power...really we make a lot of choices in our lives. Actually I think advertisments are a reflection of our choices more than the other way around. I am more into personal repsonsibility and our ability to choose rather than blaming corporations or businesses for the harmful choices we make.

Kristina

In a message dated 6/1/04 10:48:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, writes:

Message: 7 Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:18:21 EDT EBbrewpunxSubject: Re: Re:Round up your friends to buy BK Burgersahbut why do these kids have such poor diets??cuz they are bombarded with ads fer this fast food place, er this soda etc and so forth...by offerin us a token bit we can eat, and is marginally better then their other fare, all they are doin is providin a nice little green wash.."seeeee, we care, we have a veggie burger, it may be overprocessed cardboard, but seeee, we are ooooohhhh sooo goood....would you like a side of endangered whale blubber with that?"i know about kids and poverty..,....i live in da 'hood....and its wonderful how mcdonalds and their ilk all seem to pop up like mushrooms around skools...i dunno, to me, addin a "healthy" aternative at these places misses the whole point...its the flip side of a the same coin, i don't want to use the same coin....if you have cancer, is it worth it to continue smoking a pack an hour, because, yer on chemo???imo, fast food is part of the problem....if yer worried about children livin in poverty havin poor nutrional choices laid out before em, i'm not sure that encouragin them to eat at these places is the right approachi see yer point, but, to me, it just clouds the issues....*shrug*like i said..its just me....there are tons of vegans wot there whose soul dietary choice is chips (i mean crisps) and guacamole'...everyone is different,,,,,fraggle> I was a substitute teacher for 5 years. In those 5 years I came across > many children in many different communities. Most of them poor and uneducated. > Sometimes I would bring up nutrition issues and just teach them the word > vegetarianism. I would not preach because I didn't think that was appropriate > to use my position in such a way...but I did want to expose them to the > concept.> > Guess what? Not one knew what it meant. Most thought it was an "animal > doctor". Even worse, many of the kids, who had thoughtless parents, rarely ate > a vegetable (or knew what one was) and many ate most of their meals at fast > food places. Unfortunates indeed.> > At least with this small token, and the fact that some of the fast food > places are offering salads now...it's a little offering to the many, many > children who grow up in homes that have no concept of healthy eating and/or who are > not exposed to plant based foods. At least they will see from the > experience, that yes, burgers do not have to have beef and yes, maybe a veggie burger > can fill you up, and yes maybe salads are good. For many fast food is the > only food...unbelievable as it is...but LA and other metropolisis have many > communities like this. This maybe their only chance.> >