Friday 20 July 2012

Save the Children.

We all know – or should do by now – that the likes of McDonalds and KFC load their products with chemical additives to make them more ‘appealing.’ We know that some of those additives are linked to behavioural problems in children, and can also cause other conditions such as headaches and breathing difficulties in some people. We know that such junk food is high in cholesterol and fosters obesity.

So why, oh why, do we allow the likes of McDonalds and KFC to target their advertising at children? More to the point, why do we allow people under eighteen to even walk through the door of such establishments? Why is our culture becoming so hysterical about hygiene and unnaturally wrapping children in cotton wool – to the point, it seems, of suppressing their natural immune systems – while turning a blind eye to the seventy eight different chemicals that McDonalds use across its range?

It seems we have fools to the left of us and criminally greedy entrepreneurs to the right. And they’re both winning by wooing the gullible.

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