A Washington, D.C.-based anti-meat advocacy group is asking the owner of a Las Vegas restaurant that prides itself on unhealthy meals to shut down after a customer suffered a medical episode and was hospitalized.Here's my suggestion: The "Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine" should go fuck themselves. I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on the Internet, but I find it hard to believe that eating a hamburger would immediately trigger a heart attack.
Officials for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said Thursday they sent a letter to Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso, asking him to "declare moral bankruptcy" and close the restaurant.
More to the point of this post, there are certain things called "personal responsibility" and "acting like a grown-up". Adults are responsible for their own actions. If people want to go to a restaurant and eat a quadruple-bacon-cheeseburger and french fries which have been deep-fried in lard, that is their choice. The goddamn nanny doctors should just shut their yaps.
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ReplyDeleteLet's say you work next to a Live Forever and Look AWESOME! cafe, and you have lunch there 4-5 days a week. Usually you. buy a "Super Healthy Health Food Salad with Extra Healthy Health Dressing," or sometimes the Mega Diet Vitamin-Packed Sandwich of Longevity. After you have a heart attack, you hire a private investigator to find out why Live Forever Cafe almost killed you. You find out that the salad dressing is 900 calories per teaspoon, and the sandwich has as much cholesterol as a dozen eggs and a half pound of bacon, you have grounds to sue if you have a heart attack after eating their food for lunch every day for a year.
In this case, "HEART ATTACK" is ON THE SIGN! If you can't resist going into a place that tells you on the sign that their food will kill you, when you leave the cardiologist's office you should see a shrink!
Personally, anyone who wants to routinely eat 6000 calorie burgers and add fries and a malted? Let 'em....it might be as well if they eat themselves out of the human gene pool.
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First off: you could almost say that the linked story is a case study in Truth in Advertising. I’m not sure what, if anything, could be considered morally bankrupt about that.
ReplyDeleteThere are people — and one or two days a month, I am one of them — who squee at the thought of eating french fries cooked in lard. (By dead reckoning, I figure it’s been almost 30 years since I last did. Thank goodness for barbecue.) It seems like you’re doing your neighbors a favor if you decide to serve that market, thus reducing the pressure on your competitors to market stealth-fattening fare.
Meanwhile, I am reminded of something a dear friend pointed out to me. The message goes like this: some doctors are scientists, and some are priests.
There’s no mistaking which of those two persuasions are followed by this lobbying group, and there’s no mistaking the attitude I (and most people, I bet) prefer from doctors who treat me.
I looked at their menu. Those guys probably think "morally bankrupt" is a compliment.
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