Where is the beef? In my mouth!

Tonight, make mine beef!! I say that because the food police, better known as, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) do not want any more fast food chains being built in America. In fact, they hate fast food so much, they started airing television commercials that Crain’s Chicago Business described as, “The spot shows a dead man laying on a gurney with a half-eaten burger in one hand and a grieving woman at his side. As the camera pans around and stops at the man's feet, the Golden Arches logo appears with the line, ‘I was lovin' it,’ in a twist on the chain's tagline. A voiceover states, “high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it vegetarian.’ “

The Crain’s story also reported, “ ‘There is a time for education and there is also a time for economic incentives and pressure, and fast food chains promote meat, cheese, sugary sodas and precious little else,’ said Neal Barnard, president of the PCRM. The goal of the campaign is to make it more difficult for some restaurant chains to enter the city and make it more advantageous for outlets that promote healthier foods to open new restaurants, Mr. Barnard added.”


I commented on the story by writing:

“This is totally ridiculous! Nobody is forced to eat McDonald's or any other fast food. It is a matter of personal choice. I am glad we live in a country where we are allowed to eat whatever we want, whether it is healthy or not. I am so sick of all the bleeding heart liberal groups taking a stance against anything that has calories in it. Kill a huge cow for me and let me devour the meat! Even better if it is served with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a sesame seed bun!” (I heard some people at Crain’s enjoyed my comment!)


So PCM tells us it is okay to eat out, as long as we eat healthier foods.

Obviously if people eat at restaurants then they are not cooking at home. That is not good. Why? Because The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) did a study on the most frequently reported activities by intensity by U.S. adults and, “On any given day, the greatest prevalence for reported moderate activities was food and drink preparation for both men (12.8%) and women (37.63%).”


So the #1 exercise of Americans is making food! I guess we need to get out more! But in a way we are trapped by conflicting physician group reports.


PCRM says it is okay to eat out as long as we eat healthy. But if we eat out, then we will get AJPM is mad at us because going out for dinner will cut down on our “exercise” of food preparation.

I’ll just have alphabet soup for dinner and decide what to do by what the letters tell me!