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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I think that is just a little too simple. Even if the food companies didn't advertise and you can't blame them for promoting their business, that is the American way...even if they didn't.
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You made the assumption that I blame them for promoting their business when I was just holding a mirror up to reality, to show what exists. Fast food promotion is a fact of life that everyone is exposed to, period.
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There would still be people who chose food that was not healthy.
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Obviously. Are you assuming I thought otherwise? I wasn't in anyway suggesting what you are assuming. I was simply expressing my rational as to why things are different today than when I was a kid.
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They would not insist their children try everything so that they could get used to "what is good for you" and they would be too lazy to cook. They would still have tummies as they grow older unless they have unusual genes and they would still have difficulty keeping up the level of exercise that is needed for optimum health because we all are a little lazy.
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Are you saying that's what would happen if there were no more advertising? If that's the case, I would tend to agree. But that's based on your big assumption that I was suggesting there should be no more advertising.
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There would be people from every background and every economic level who ate healthily but not perfectly by other peoples standards.
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You're making more (perhaps emotional?) assumptions: Eating "perfectly by other peoples standards"?
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My view is to "run your own railroad and let me run mine."
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Because I tryed to explain how things are different today than they were when I was a kid, you think I'm trying to run your railroad?