Prince Charles calls for 'ban' on McDonald's
 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1447319.ece

The Prince of Wales threw his weight into the debate about healthy eating today and told a nutritionist that the “key” was to ban McDonald’s fast food restaurants.

The controversial remarks were made as the Prince was in Abu Dhabi attending the launch of a public health awareness campaign aimed at fighting diabetes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

He visited the Imperial College London Diabetes Centre and watched as a group of children chose from a selection of “good” and “bad” snacks for their school packed lunches.

Talking to Nadine Tayara, a nutritionist from the centre who had put the children through their paces, he asked her: “Have you got anywhere with McDonald’s? Have you tried getting it banned? That’s the key.”

A McDonald’s spokeswoman said Charles’s remark was “disappointing”.

Other members of his family had visited the chain, she said, and “have probably got a more up-to-date picture of us.”

The spokeswoman added: “This appears to be an off-the-cuff remark, in our opinion. It does not reflect our menu or where we are as a business.”

Charles was clearly unaware of some of the moves the company has made, she said, such as improved labelling, supporting sustainable agriculture and nutritional changes with choice and variety.

In August 2005 Prince Harry popped into a McDonald's for a "buy one get one free" meal. He is reported to have bought two chicken burgers and a strawberry milkshake, eating the meal on the pavement outside.

His brother, Prince William, was pictured queuing up for a meal at McDonald’s in January 1992.

A Clarence House spokesman, travelling with the Prince and Duchess on their ten-day tour of the Gulf, later issued a statement.

It said: “The Prince of Wales has for a long time advocated the importance of a balanced diet, especially for children. In visiting the diabetes centre today, he was keen to emphasise the need for children to enjoy the widest variety of food and not to eat any particular sort of food to excess.”


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And they felt the need to call up a McDonald's spokeswoman?

Newswriters are so stupid, I swear.

(disclaimer: I, myself, am actually a newswriter.)

Srsly.


I don't think fast food is that bad. It becomes bad when you eat it, every day for every meal. Moderation is the key. Eating a Big Mac once a week isn't going to kill you or make you fat. :cool:

:lol: Me too...and yes, newswriters are so stupid. I don't know what kind of media you work in, but thankfully I don't have to deal with crap like this...at least that offers some consolation :o

McDonald's doesn't need to be banned -- people just need to stop being whiny losers and start accepting personal responsibility. No one's shoving those burgers and fries into anyone's mouths... it's a choice whether or not we eat them.

Not to mention the fact that it's FAST FOOD and was never meant to be a staple of anyone's diet -- something that any common garden-variety idiot should know.

When I was a kid, we had McDonald's maybe once a month as a treat. Now people eat it like it's one of the four food groups.

Radio.

And no, I don't really have to deal with this kind of -who gives a crap about this story- crap.. but radio media does have its own kind of crap to deal with. Like the fact that everybody wants to kiss the newspaper's ass. Because, you know, they can totally update every hour and bring in breaking news with 3 minutes notice just like radio can. Right? Wronggggg. grumblegrumblecusscuss.

Sorry if you work in newspaper. I've done that too. It's just that.. I can honestly say it sucks and I hate it.

Nope, I'm in radio too :wavey: And thankfully, we don't have too much newspaper ass kissing. We're a pretty independent little operation, which I like.

I've never worked in newspaper, and I've never heard anything good from anyone who has :laugh:

People should take responsibility, but I also don't see anything at all wrong with banning McDonalds. It would be great. It's not like anyone would die or starve if it didn't exist.

We bought out our competition a few years back, so really, it's all been downhill since then. We act like we try to compete with the newspaper, but in my town, the people who own the newspaper own the bank. They sit on all the commissions and boards, and they've got the police and sheriff wrapped around their pinkies. I like it when they give the newspaper a pre-release so they can make their 11 AM printing deadline, but make us wait until 6 PM (after everybody gets home and reads the paper) to get full details. I stick in little jabs when I can. Dispatchers have pretty much learned to avoid the phrases "I don't know" and "I'm not sure". Like an armed robbery a few weeks ago. We knew it had happened.. radio stations in neighboring counties got BOLOs from their sheriff's department and told us. So, I call, and they're like, "Welllllll, we've got detectives on the scene, but I don't know anything else." So I'm like, "Well, do you know if it was a robbery?" "Wellll, I don't know"..click. My story? "Information from neighboring Sheriff's department in blahblah county says an armed robbery suspect wanted for holding up a local pharmacy..blahblahblahblah.. officials at the local sheriff's department said that they did not know if a robbery had actually taken place." LOL!!!!! bwaahahaha. heehee. ha. cough. The sad part is that they totally knew.. even the TBI was called.. they had a suspect description, car description, direction of travel, how much he'd taken, and the fact that the pharmacist herself actually shot at the suspect. And he wants to say he didn't know? F the po-leece.

It's a nice laid-back job most of the time, though, that's for sure. If you like to write at your own pace, it's for you, because newspaper is totally up-yr-butt kind of work. "Done yet?" "Done yet?" "Are you done yet?" "Can I have that yet?" "Is it done?" "I gotta have that by.."

Absolutely. I don't think people, even Prince Charles, should be slated for saying that certain things should be banned - he's entitled to his opinion, apparently. I think more stuff should be banned anyway, starting with everything I don't like :)

I love Quarter Pounders. Sooooooo bad, yet sooooooo good. :angel:

I guess I just don't like to be told what I can and cannot eat, simply because other people don't have the willpower or intelligence to know when to stop stuffing their fat faces.

I gained weight. No secret. But I didn't gain weight through the fault of anyone else. I'm responsible for my weight gain, and if and when I chose to lose it, that'll be my responsibility too.

i wuv you! :xoxo:

Anybody see Supersize Me?
I know that's not the point of the thread, but it's pretty good documentary
on the whole thing...

Personally, I'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia without a McDonalds nearby, but I think that ultimately banning fast food from the world would be a better thing, yes.

Not to mention, McDonald's specifically markets their menu structure at kids who come home to no parents in the more urban areas. Put it this way, what is the McDonald's in you area like between 3 and 6 in the afternnon. Every one I see has school kids in it and they have about $5.00 to spend, which is exactly where McDonald's menu is at.

In the end, there is nothing on the menu there that, when eaten every day, is in any way great for you. So, yes, eaten in moderation it is okay. But, when kids go there everyday essentially out of necessity, it is a bad thing.

Banning anything should never be the response to bad parenting.

Kind of like when the government introduced crack to the ghetto, huh? ;) Slimy bastards.

Ah, forget it. Nevermind.

I disagree with you there. Heterosexuals should be banned as a result of bad parenting.

Yes. :shocked: That's why I eat at McDonald's about twice a year now, compared to my previous couple times a month.

i think calling that situation bad parenting is a gross oversimplification. :shrug:

True - but that is a bit of non-reality there. In many urban areas, you are dealing with a single mom who works two jobs and lives in govt. sub. housing. I think the vast majority of those mom's are trying their best, but they cannot be there when the kids get home. So, in a perfect world, yes it is bad parenting. But, in that scenario, which I have seen first hand, what else are they going to do?

Stupid breeders ruin it for everyone!

omg. your response is so much better. :laugh:

i'm glad you're posting more often. :wavey: you're funny!

I had not eaten it in awhile and I had a Big Mac and fries - I could not finish it and it kind of made me sick while eating it. I also noticed the size of the meat patty was a little like AOL size :laugh: Seriously, it was this little peice of meat hidden in this huge bun. I was like "this is a rip off" because my meat used to be much larger than this.

lol! I almost said "breeders" instead of "heterosexuals", but took it back last minute. Glad it got thrown in there anyway. ;)

And thanks Carrie. I have no idea why I've started posting more recently. I guess work is just ultra boring lately! That's okay, I'm getting paid for this. :lol:

I don't deny that.
But there's also something to be said for not bringing children into this world if you can't afford to raise them.

My mother wanted five kids... her and Dad could only afford two, so that's all they had.

OMG. :shocked: You poor thing!

ROTFLMAO! :lol:

There's a hell of a lot to be said for that, but unfortunately too many people don't agree, or are too dumb to care :shrug: Hold on, this is where I start on about sterilising the stupid... :laugh:

in a perfect world, you are right, and i think that's the case the majority of the time. but i know enough people who have fallen on hard times they couldn't have anticipated to stop me from saying/thinking that.

i was gonna say - wasn't impotence one of the things the supersize me dude suffered from? :D

On occasion I can beat amusing :angel:

Or putting an under the skin drug like Norplant in all girls 21 and under so no stupid girl under 21 gets knocked up.

And this is where I'd agree with you :lol:

I'd have to agree with you there. I've often said there should be some sort of Parenting-Intelligence Quotient test, to determine your suitability for breeding. If you fail... snip-snip!

No! No! No!
 

Please don't sterlize the stupid, Hollywood needs more whiny Limousine-liberals and the White House need more durn-fool-idgits FUBARing the U.S. onto the brink of WWIII.

Remember, Even 'Buddy Christ' loves the stupid!!!

i'm all for this. :cool:

Don't get me wrong -- I'm not talking about people who've fallen on hard times. No one can ever anticipate that.

I'm talking about people who are born in poverty, grow up in poverty, then have kids who suffer the same fate.

There are some chains you should break.

I don't disagree. I just also think McDonald's is pretty useless. It's not like people wouldn't have any delicious things to stuff their face with without it. Also, millions of acres of forest could be saved instead of being turned into grazing land. In theory.

McDonald's really doesn't appeal to me. Honestly, I really only go when I have a craving for Dr. Pepper. Is that weird? I guess I could buy a 2-liter or something, but it's way better from the fountain.. and available in the drive-thru.

Which, there's something else that irks me. Thru. Why do people do this? Yes, it's shorter..but this is the tradition of written language we're talking about bastardizing here. WTF mate? **

**"wtf mate?" refers to funniest cartoon ever, found at endofworld.net

So let me see if I get this right...you're only allowed to post when you're funny? :shrug: :lol: