My whole point is many people in the US choose convenience over health. Plain and simple. My whole thing is Disney should offer more healthy options overall and not only offer fastfood type meals ala McDonalds.
I am not a vegetarian, far from it as a matter of fact, I eat meat on a regular basis, nothing is better than a well cooked steak. A couple years ago I chose to minimize my intake of fastfood and thuse stopped eating fast food burgers. As I said before I still eat red meat, but now when I eat a fastfood burger I get terribly sick and feel awful for a couple days afterwards.
If the stuff in Supersize me is a farce, then explain that away and explain some of the facts brought fourth in the movie. Not basing my whole opinion on that movie, but that is well known public document that shows a few of the facts about the fastfood industry. That movie was partly what kicked off the "healthier choice" menu at McDonalds.
Hell watch "Honey we're killing the kids" it shows the results of constant fastfood/junkfood and how it can afect the development of a child. I'm not closed minded but I feel many Americans take the "easy options" as in fast food, more often than they realize and its not really a good thing. I just wish healthier options were available and people took a smarter approach to nutrition.
Also you ask who in there right mind eats McDonalds 24/7. You would be surprised how many people in America actually do that. I work with a lady who used to live on fastfood alone mainly cause she hated to cook. She was 300lbs or so and in very bad health. But late last year she took the initiative to stop eating fastfood and took a more healthy approach to nutrition. She has since lost 60lbs+ and is doing great.
My whole point is the convenience of fastfood is a plague on this country. People forego a healthy home cooked meal for a quick combo meal from the local fastfood joint. Not saying that fastfood should not exist at all, but the exposure and availability of it should be minimized and/or people should be allowed other cheap healthy options. You say choice = responsibility, well you can't offer people 500 different cheap unhealthy options and then a small handful of more expensive healthy options and then blame a person for making the wrong choice, income plays a huge roll in personal nutrition as well. The blame rests equally on the food industry as well as the consumer.
I know this arguement has gone well outside the boundaries of WDW, but I feel passionately about this subject and would like to voice my opinion on it. I'm sorry if I've offended anyone, especially you shoppingnut, I did not mean to offend, I only wanted to get my point across, however I may have been a bit agressive in my previous response to you and I'm sorry.
Taking this back on subject, IMO WDW should offer healthier food choices in the park and should start by removing the sales of McDonalds and other outside food vendors.
EDIT: BTW when I called WDW a safehaven, I meant a haven from the outside world and an escape from reality. Having a piece of that outside world stuck directly in the middle of WDW is among other things, a reminder of the outside world and not something I like to see when I'm in the happiest place on earth. Just my personal opinon.
