I just finished watching “Super Size Me” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390521/). Morgan Spurlock is an entertaining guy, and there’s a lot to be said for how entertaining his documentary is. A lot of folks just don’t seem to realize how many calories they are eating, and I’m glad that this documentary points that out to people, but damn is in one sided. It’s easy to blame corporations like McDonald’s, I’ll admit that they do everything they can to get people to eat their **** and that kids are partly sucked in by their marketing style, but what about personal responsibility or parental decision making? Here are the things I hated about the show:

1. They mostly blame McDonald’s and companies like them, but talk little about personal responsibility. I was not fat five years ago because McDonald’s forced me to eat those 20 piece chicken McNuggets, I chose to eat them!
2. They seemed to indicate that the two overweight girls who were suing McDonald’s were right to do it! Bullshit, they chose their lifestyle as much as I chose to post this message.
3. Morgan’s vegan girlfriend was annoying an pretentious. Vegans can be as bad as people who look down their nose at you for not following their religion.
4. The praise it gave to the school that sold organically grow meals was such bull ****. They said the price came to about the same as the regular meals, but I doubt that. Watch Penn ad Tellers “Bullshit” episode on organic foods to see what kind of crap science these people push. We don’t need to sell the calorie dense foods that we do in schools, but the organic foods nonsense is also bad because it costs more money they other just a healthy alternatives.

Watch the show for entertainment and a little information, but ignore it when it blames corporations for all the fat people and forgets about personal responsibility for one’s self and one’s children.