I would have thought the main ingredient in KFC is heart disease

The problem, as always, comes back to basic economic inequality.

In real terms, average household income has been in decline for the past 35 years. As a result of this, most people can't afford to buy decent food.
So they buy fast food and processed crap. Even the staples they do buy, like chicken, have to be way cheaper than they should be to pay the farmer, and treat the birds properly.

Is this seriously not a parody? Holy shit. @:48 "A group of anti-energy activists..." - really? Anti-energy? "I hate energy!" "Yeah, me too! "Fuck energy!"

Edit: Apparently the group that made this is run by / connected to one Rick Berman, who I'd not really known anything about previously. Found a post with some info on the guy, sounds like a winner: "a Washington lobbyist and arch-enemy of other lobbyists and do-gooders who would have government control—and even ban-a myriad of products they claim are killing us, products like caffeine, salt, fast food and the oil they fry it in. He's against Mothers Against Drunk Driving, animal rights activists, food watchdog groups and unions of every kind..."

I've only gotten sick twice eating fast food. Both times was a Taco Bell and it's not because I patronized them more often than other fast food, rather the opposite actually. Needless to say, I won't go near one now.

They could do another video on the proliferation of tipping. You see tip jars at drive up windows, coffee shops, fast food places. I know there's less obligation to the jar, but it's still pretty awkward. Am I an ass for not tipping? What if no one else is tipping, will doing so look like a sad attempt to ingratiate myself to the attractive barista? Is it fine to just throw a bit of loose change in there on a small purchase, or will they see the pennies as an insult?

we'll see what happens once most jobs are 'efficiency-ed-out', unlike in the industrial revolution now you're not just seeing mechanization becoming faster at specific tasks, robotization is becoming more and more flexible, which means that as it goes on more and more broad categories of jobs will go by the wayside.

Just think of when in the endless quest for profit the moment it becomes more cost effective to switch to, say, self-driving delivery trucks and entirely automated fast food, how many millions of people will that put out of work? and what are they going to do?

I don't blindly subscribe to dystopian scenarios, but I also don't blindly subscribe to platitudes like "horse buggy whip factories disappeared and we were just fine", this is something we need to address as a society somehow (via basic income maybe, or some other way)

While I know that parents have an enormous influence to empower their children to be able to think for themselves I always think of this, from Mr. Philip K. Dick, when I think about advertisement and the such:

"The power of spurious realities battering at us today—these deliberately manufactured fakes never penetrate to the heart of true human beings. I watch the children watching TV and at first I am afraid of what they are being taught, and then I realize, They can't be corrupted or destroyed. They watch, they listen, they understand, and, then, where and when it is necessary, they reject. There is something enormously powerful in a child's ability to withstand the fraudulent. A child has the clearest eye, the steadiest hand. The hucksters, the promoters, are appealing for the allegiance of these small people in vain. True, the cereal companies may be able to market huge quantities of junk breakfasts; the hamburger and hot dog chains may sell endless numbers of unreal fast-food items to the children, but the deep heart beats firmly, unreached and unreasoned with. A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children. They do not ask me; I turn to them. "

from 'How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart In Two Days'

Alright, I'm by no means against kids eating healthy, but this is a truly dumb and hypocritical way of going about it.

How the hell is food designed to be addictive? Welp, mostly by making it actually delicious. Fast food doesn't control the market on that, mostly anything that tastes good can be considered "addictive".

Then we go into a graph that seemingly gets larger and larger, implying that these diseases are HUGELY on the rise (which for all I know, they could be. But there's no actual evidence, just a rising graph that turns into a heart rate monitor.)

Infact, just perusing their website they have a whole whack of bogeymen arguments and excuses with nothing that really backs them up. Two parts stand out, One, they want to take action against the CEO of mcdonalds by telling him to take down a website about happy meals. The site has a bunch of stupid videos, games, and even a couple educational things about recycling and animals... very little to do with actually pushing the food on kids.

The second part was about something also somewhat touched on in the video: Food companies say that it's the parents responsibility to determine what their kids eat. Is it really up to the parents?

The answer for them is basically a long winded ":Yes, but because businesses decide to use marketing targeted at our kids, they made it REALLY hard, and therefore, technically, no."


Look, end of the day, parents are responsible for their kids. It doesn't matter HOW much advertising goes into the kids, when you determine what their breakfast will be (by buying it at a store, i.e. cereal), what their lunch will be, and then cooking them dinner, you 100% are responsible for what your kids eat.

The alternative is saying "Here's 10 bucks, get yourself something at school" which is ALSO determining what your kids eat. Kids are weak, given the option they WILL go for the fries with gravy for lunch.

Both versions determine what your kid is going to eat, and both are decided upon by YOU. Stop blaming corporations for doing what corporations do, and just take responsibility.

We really need a translation for this. I'm assuming it's a fast food commercial, but...

I can imagine it:

Beneficent aliens on a survey mission (the Kritchans) crashed onto our planet due to an unpredictable burst of solar energy. Stranded and alone, their ship destroyed, they were rescued by a local farmer. In time they taught him of their Kritchan ways.

The farmer now knows that in their culture, not holding a door open for someone is considered the ultimate insult. But they were hungry and desperate and had a coupon for a value meal.

They tried to just come in and order a burger, but people were rude and slammed the door in their face.

Confronted with the judgmental reactionary stupidity of mankind, our alien ambassador farmer friend finally freaks out and wrecks some fake flora in a fast food joint, facilitating the flight and future fury of our foreign friends. Was it worth it?

It's just a theory.

Weird how most people swear that they get sick from the MSG in Chinese food, and yet seem perfectly fine with chips, almost every fast food chain, store bought salad dressings, soups, and on and on. It's funny how MSG only seems to make you sick when you know it's there.

Number seems to vary where you look and how much is controlled for in the study.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap#United_States

Getting a bit off topic, but at least here in Australia for lower skilled jobs (say fast food) there is generally standard bonus pay for holidays and overtime standards via unions.

For professional jobs, it's largely factored into wages. People know for example, that investment bankers work weekends and long nights and this factors into their high default wage versus other finance jobs. There's a tacit understanding of the work commitment required for various professions whether it's for men or women.

Yeah, I've seen references like this. It's crap. A quick Google search turned up articles where fat people were motivated to lose their weight because of fat shaming. There was a recent article in our local paper that made a similar point. You can always find a study to support your view. I prefer the evidence of my own eyes.
Obesity has soared in one generation because we now refer to fat women as BBW. Manufacturers of planes and cars, clothing are now designing for heavier people.
Acceptance of fat has led to the current crisis (and I do acknowledge the role of the fast food industry which I compare to the tobacco industry).
Remember how cigarette smoking was once seen as glamourous? Not any more... it was re-branded as a disgusting vice that took its toll on your health, your looks, your breath and people (like me) dropped the habit so that in one generation it's the exception rather than the rule.
Sure, there are hardcore smokers who will never be cured. And some fat people are always going to stay fat rather than develop some willpower. But it should never be accepted or promoted somehow.

While I think the ad is tasteless, I thought large chain business built on reputation were above this, they haven't done anything legally wrong here.

If she posed for the photos, and was paid by the photographer as the model, she had to have signed a disclosure contract that allowed the photographer to sell her image. I'm guessing that it wasn't Burger King she posed for when these photos were taken but an independent photographer, or image bank like Getty Images.

So once she has modeled and collected her paycheck, (or maybe, no paycheck), she has entered into a contract whereby the photographer or artist who took the photos has full say on how those images are used, in this case sold to a major fast food chain.

And it's not Rape. In now way is this rape. Disappointing and a bit embarrassing and by-and-large a completely inappropriate ad for a family focused restaurant chain. But then Burger King is know for it's sometimes inappropriate ads.

I will also say that it was an unprofessional move to buy the model footage and not take their own photos with a willing model. Big companies who can afford it, should never be purchasing stock photos from a service for this very reason, someone will notice and call them out. Big companies have a professional reputation to uphold. This ad campaign was a cop-out, without professionalism.

I'll bet this ad was created by a secondary party as well, and not by Burger King staff creative. Sometimes large corporations can't police every ad that is made in their name - which is unfortunate. I work for a small company and it's often a nightmare trying to police all the creative that gets made which doesn't get filtered through the Public Affairs department.

I know, I fucking hate freestyle...Almost as much as slam poetry, fast-food, and television...