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You say that talking about an industry that is directly and indirectly responsible for thousands of deaths and the lowering of hundreds of thousands of people's quality of life.
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WRONG.
The fast food industry is responsible for nothing. If you're too stupid to work out that eating too much junk is bad for you, then that's your fault, not the company that sold you the junk.
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It's wrong because you are allowing people to have a detrimental effect on themselves and society a large; it's even worse because fast food corporations encourage you to buy their shit. They even pretend it's not bad for you. It's not about being mentally fit and psychiatry, it's about thinking and psychology. These companies are psychologists. They know exactly what they're doing and how best to get you into their outlets. They know precise what makes kids tick, and they take advantage of that. If people want burgers, they can make them themselves. I do, and I know exactly what goes in them, too, and how what's in them was obtained.
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Once again, WRONG.
It's been proven TIME and TIME again that junk food has no detrimental effects if taken in moderation. If individuals are not responsible enough to moderate their eating habits then that's their problem and the Government's problem (who are failing to deal with it).
And if people want to buy a burger to get certain flavours that would be nigh on impossible to replicate with home cooking, (ever try reconstructing a whopper meal from home?) then they have a RIGHT TO DO THAT. Why should we be forced to cook our own food, which could just as easily be very unhealthy, just so that we get to "know what's in it", an "advantage" that has no positive health effects or nutritional value whatsoever. Simply knowing what's in your food doesn't make it infallably healthy.
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I'm guessing you were just going on a rant here, but most of this is rubbish.
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And again, WRONG. You've most likely been giving way to Labour government propaganda like so many do. If you pay any attention to it you begin to get the impression that Britain is doing very well for itself. Yet if you step out the door and look at the real world, you realise that it's not.
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Britain has no industry because we lost most of our endogenous comparative advantages.
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Some more of that lovely, juicy WRONG.
Britain has no industry because politicians have, over the years, made it difficult to impossible to operate as an industry here. Britain is frightened of industry, and it generally works against it.
For instance, tallow is set to be considered waste rather than fuel due to a new EU legislation, which will force every industry using tallow to convert to heavy fuel oil, which will make it even more expensive to run an industry here and cause even more pollution. That's just an example of the type of laws and policies that industrial Britain tripped over and never recovered from, not some imaginary "endogenous comparative advantages".
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Our export market remains the sixth largest in the world, our unemployment is lower than is has been for the last quarter of a century, our economy is one of the strongest in Europe and climbing.
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Ah, max, max, max, WRONG again.
Britain is the 9th largest exporter in the world, and the 3rd largest in europe. That doesn't mean it's exporting things that were manufactured here.
Britain was the worlds first, one and only industrial superpower. It had the largest export market, had the largest manufacturing industry, largest mining industry, and the greatest economy. Britain was where heavy industry was not only pioneered but also invented.
Now look at it. We barely produce any steel or metals of any other kind. We import almost everything. over 70% of the things we use are imported. Mining sectors are doing really badly due to conservationists, traditionalists, and other people in the government who oppose anything they deem "unattractive/dirty" on the landscape, and hold a vision of britain as this land of quaint, biscuit-tin-lid villages in unspoiled rural areas.
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The cost of living is going through the roof because people are getting paid more and demanding ever-higher qualities of life from sources who are all too eager to charge more for it, and the aging population is a result of the Baby Boom and nothing to do with the economy or ethical consumerism.
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That is incorrect, and I repeat the section of my post that you are referring to, as my countering argument. The average wage next to inflation has been shown to be DOWN not UP - people AREN'T getting paid more. Prices are going up faster than wages, and it's been shown that the demographic that businesses are aiming for are those who've just retired and want all the crap on daytime TV, like a sunny villa in spain, a regular slot at the local carboot sale, and they're getting jiggy with the property ladder. It's also proven that the minimum average age for first time home buyers has jumped up to 31, because of the increase in cost of homes and living, the level of unemployment, and the low wages of employment available to those just starting work.
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Absolutely you are, and I agree the government isn't doing everything is could to solve the problem, but public awareness of health is increasing dramatically. I fear it's just another fad and dread the next swing of the cultural pendulum, but the awareness we teach children now is still going to be there when they're parents. I'd like to again point out that fast food needn't be synonymous with shit food.
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We shouldn't be teaching "awareness" as something that translates to never eating fast food. "Awareness" should be something that allows you to moderate your eating habits to something sensible, so that you don't eat it every day or something rediculous like that.
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I just thought I'd point out how delicious Greggs food is and I urge you all to try it :P
