:facepalm:

:D Another fly trapped...

Is that supposed to be a joke then? Another fly trapped? WTF are you talking about? Are you drinking right now?

Yep, almost 2 yrs ago.
http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id....google.com%2F

I rarely drink.

People complain about getting rid of things that are bad for you.

I thought I'd mention alcohol. I knew I'd get a response.

:)

The facepalm is because it's a horrible freaking analogy with more holes than swiss cheese, not because it's related to alcohol.

I wasn't making an analogy.

I was trolling.

I'm sure saving a few dollars for a cheap burger is worth the cost of diabetes, health issues, and decreased workplace productivity. I'm sure this is worth the billions in health related costs associated with morbid obesity.

The basics of supply and demand is that if more people eat healthy food, healthy food can be priced lower. I would rather that than to sell people garbage that is creating a massive societal cost.

Can we dig up more stuff from 2012?

Excellent post.

This is why transparency is important. Part of the reason I have no sympathy for McDonald's

Ammonium hydroxide is regular ammonia dissolved into water.

When we talk about things that cause terrible social ills, health problems, directly attributable deaths, etc.- we dont include alcohol because we like that one. We only demonize unhealthy stuff that we personally have no taste for.

I ate McDonalds after having too much to drink last night. I feel like shit today and I'm not sure if it's because of the booze or the McDonalds.

The problem of diabetes and health issues would remain if you closed every single McD's in the country. That's the point you're missing. It's not the access to a particular food that's the problem. It's the fact that people don't care. You can't make people eat healthy food by attempting to remove all the unhealthy food. That doesn't work, and that will never work. Fatties don't eat at McD's all the time because they don't have access to healthy food alternatives. They absolutely do, even within McD's itself.

You keep harping that people are being tricked, and they don't know that what they eat is unhealthy. But that's BS. The nutritional info is always available for everything they serve, for those that want to find out. What else do you want? A popup disclaimer every time somebody orders a Big Mac and large fries and coke that says "Hey fatty, you sure you know how many calories that is?" Come on.....

I wasn't an economics major so please correct me if I'm wrong, but if more people eat healthy food that would mean demand for healthy food increases. If demand goes up and the supply stays the same then prices theoretically would increase.