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I guess Rebecca doesn't realize that it's even cheaper to grab some healthy ingredients from the grocery store
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it... really isnt. i spend on average a little over $10 a day on food ($350 a month) if i go shopping. at mcdonalds i can get two cheeseburgers and a small fry for three.
milk - $3.50
loaf o bread - $4.00
packet o sliced turkey - $3-$5
packet o cheese - $3-$5
lettuce - $2-$3
tomato - $2-$3
all told we're looking at an average of 20 dollars for less than a weeks worth of food if you have kids.
you can make 20 go a long way at mcdonalds for kids though, especially if you're poor. it's become a real problem for a doctor i know working in lower income houeholds. she constantly has to try and convince them that they need to stop them from going to mcdonalds only to get told that it's cheap, it's what they like, and it all gets done right there. it takes less time, money, and headache than going to the store and buying what they shouldnt and spending more than what they have.
mind, i'm taking about poor families and not parents who simply spoil their kids, but that's who they're targeting, especually in LA. you'll find a much higher concentration of mcdonalds and fast food in depressed neighborhoods.
so i'm not going to stand up for fast food's right to exist. i indulged yesterday and it was awesome but theres no question that it's nothing but bad for you. legislating it out of an entire city is out of hand (like city councils and governing bodies tend to go) but i'm not going to get pissy on their behalf. they make their money letting people make the "its our responsibility" agument for them while being the most openly detrimental thing you cn eat for a meal. if thats how it's supposed to work then legalize a whole mess of other hideousness while youre at it. addiction, heart disease, overdosing.. let's all be able pick our poison.
OR, we can do the middle ground that'll sucker-punch all concerned. i quite liked that idea of putting up the nutrition facts in plain display next to the items concerned. not the whole shebang, but the juicy parts: calories and fats. fast food was afraid of that and justly so. at this point in my life whenever i do it it's either an acceptable lapse because i occasionally fckn crave it or part of a looong stretch of eating absolute shit. seeing the info reminds me and a lot of other people that the extreme content of fat and calories is not just a lapse, but a full on attack on your body, and would make half the people that crawl in on a craving think twice. if it's the people's responsibility, then people should not just be let-known but be made painfully aware of, and i like it that it'd be right as they're ordering it.