Anyone else boycott....
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Hey folks........goodness gracious great balls of fire........there ain't no reason to get confrontational, combative, or defensive. If you disagree with me, I promise I'll still accept you for who you are. I hope you'll have it in you to accept me for who I am too if you disagree with me.
I'd like to take this opportunity to make two points that I believe in.
Point One:
Here are some indisputable facts:
1. To produce >one pound< of potatoes = 60 gallons of water
2. To produce >one pound< of wheat = 108 gallons of water
3. To produce >one pound< of corn = 168 gallons of water
4. To produce >one pound< of rice = 229 gallons of water
5 To produce >one pound< of soybeans = 240 gallons of water
6. TO PRODUCE >>>>ONE POUND<<<< OF BEEF = 12,009 GALLONS OF WATER (That's A LOT of water)
The statistics for the amount of water it takes to produce one pound of chicken and one pound of pork I promise you are equally as terrifying.
A LOT of people lose their lives (foreign and domestic) over oil. If you believe in a higher being pray to them within your lifetime, your kids' lifetime, and your kids' kids' lifetime they don't live in this world when we start fighting over water because I promise you our fresh water supply will run out. When that happens, things are going to get way way way more ugly than they are now.
Whatever year it is when the first reports come out of the first major city losing its water supply, none of these reports will point a finger towards the meat industry.
Point Two:
- Every 33 seconds someone in the United States dies from cardiovascular disease.
- 250,000 Americans die annually of Sudden Cardiac Death.
- 680 Americans die >>>>every day<<<< of the year from Sudden Cardiac Death
- Someone I cared about very much died this way. Chances are you were close to someone who passed this way too.
I think it's pretty clear that an animal has a mighty powerful last line of defense. If animals could talk like they do in cartoons, they would say, "If you're gonna be idiotic enough to eat me, then I'll just make you suffer before I kill you by clogging your arteries with my fat".
My vote? I say everyone should sacrifice flavor and convenience in order to give the future of humanity a fighting chance.
Let's just look at some facts so we can put our heads together to make the best decisions. For goodness sake, we all share this planet so we should do what makes most sense...........right?
Yeah......I know.......the flesh of an animal tastes and smells good when heat is applied, but believe it or not within the modern world, there are awesome alternatives that save our water supply and won't clog your arteries.
I agree 100% with the woman who started this topic at 4:44 am. No fast food restaurant will ever get a penny from me. In fact, I've taken it a step further. I even refuse to piss or defecate in their toilets.
I won't bother elaborating about my third point about what they put inside of this fast food meat, but I'll tell ya this.........it ain't no different than smoking a cigarette.
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Hey folks........goodness gracious great balls of fire........there ain't no reason to get confrontational, combative, or defensive. If you disagree with me, I promise I'll still accept you for who you are. I hope you'll have it in you to accept me for who I am too if you disagree with me.
I'd like to take this opportunity to make two points that I believe in.
Point One:
Here are some indisputable facts:
1. To produce >one pound< of potatoes = 60 gallons of water
2. To produce >one pound< of wheat = 108 gallons of water
3. To produce >one pound< of corn = 168 gallons of water
4. To produce >one pound< of rice = 229 gallons of water
5 To produce >one pound< of soybeans = 240 gallons of water
6. TO PRODUCE >>>>ONE POUND<<<< OF BEEF = 12,009 GALLONS OF WATER (That's A LOT of water)
The statistics for the amount of water it takes to produce one pound of chicken and one pound of pork I promise you are equally as terrifying.
A LOT of people lose their lives (foreign and domestic) over oil. If you believe in a higher being pray to them within your lifetime, your kids' lifetime, and your kids' kids' lifetime they don't live in this world when we start fighting over water because I promise you our fresh water supply will run out. When that happens, things are going to get way way way more ugly than they are now.
Whatever year it is when the first reports come out of the first major city losing its water supply, none of these reports will point a finger towards the meat industry.
Point Two:
- Every 33 seconds someone in the United States dies from cardiovascular disease.
- 250,000 Americans die annually of Sudden Cardiac Death.
- 680 Americans die >>>>every day<<<< of the year from Sudden Cardiac Death
- Someone I cared about very much died this way. Chances are you were close to someone who passed this way too.
I think it's pretty clear that an animal has a mighty powerful last line of defense. If animals could talk like they do in cartoons, they would say, "If you're gonna be idiotic enough to eat me, then I'll just make you suffer before I kill you by clogging your arteries with my fat".
My vote? I say everyone should sacrifice flavor and convenience in order to give the future of humanity a fighting chance.
Let's just look at some facts so we can put our heads together to make the best decisions. For goodness sake, we all share this planet so we should do what makes most sense...........right?
Yeah......I know.......the flesh of an animal tastes and smells good when heat is applied, but believe it or not within the modern world, there are awesome alternatives that save our water supply and won't clog your arteries.
I agree 100% with the woman who started this topic at 4:44 am. No fast food restaurant will ever get a penny from me. In fact, I've taken it a step further. I even refuse to piss or defecate in their toilets.
I won't bother elaborating about my third point about what they put inside of this fast food meat, but I'll tell ya this.........it ain't no different than smoking a cigarette.
^^^^ This. And now if we could only get some indisputable facts about how aliens were responsible for the Kennedy assassination. Or was that bigfoot. I think contrails are making people fat too but that all apart of a big pharma conspiracy to up the rates of different cancers.0 -
Speaking of which, In n Out sounds delicious right now.
Hey, I've never met anyone who didn't like a little in n out...
Oh, you mean the restaurant.
Carry on.
I had a little In n Out for lunch!
probably with your exes!0 -
Who would've thought that the internet was full of conspiracy theory nutters...
Name calling is the least effective form of argument.
That wasn't very nice of you. Tell me you are sorry for referring to me as a "conspiracy theory nutter".
Wait.........you know what......scratch that.......I forgive you.
Are you implying the statistics I provided you are inaccurate?
Truth hurts doesn't it?0 -
Nope. I boycott ideas from those that say eating junk/fast food makes it impossible to lose weight. I don't condone eating it EVERYDAY, but once or twice a week (that's me) hasn't hampered my fitness or physique at all in the last 30 years.
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Who would've thought that the internet was full of conspiracy theory nutters...
Name calling is the least effective form of argument.
That wasn't very nice of you. Tell me you are sorry for referring to me as a "conspiracy theory nutter".
Wait.........you know what......scratch that.......I forgive you.
Are you implying the statistics I provided you are inaccurate?
Truth hurts doesn't it?
Oh. I wasn't trying to get in an argument with you, I recognize a lost cause. I do appreciate your forgiveness though. :flowerforyou:0 -
Speaking of which, In n Out sounds delicious right now.
Hey, I've never met anyone who didn't like a little in n out...
Oh, you mean the restaurant.
Carry on.
I had a little In n Out for lunch!
probably with your exes!
Friends, how many of us have them...friends, one's we can depend on. Let's be friends!
I always try to break up on friendly terms. Not entirely for this reason.0 -
^^^^ This. And now if we could only get some indisputable facts about how aliens were responsible for the Kennedy assassination. Or was that bigfoot. I think contrails are making people fat too but that all apart of a big pharma conspiracy to up the rates of different cancers.
The chemtrails are planting government mind control chips in all of us, and they're making us want to eat fast food, potato chips, drink 64 oz glasses of Coca Cola, and pollute all our water so we can go to war with another country.0 -
Hey folks........goodness gracious great balls of fire........there ain't no reason to get confrontational, combative, or defensive. If you disagree with me, I promise I'll still accept you for who you are. I hope you'll have it in you to accept me for who I am too if you disagree with me.
I'd like to take this opportunity to make two points that I believe in.
Point One:
Here are some indisputable facts:
1. To produce >one pound< of potatoes = 60 gallons of water
2. To produce >one pound< of wheat = 108 gallons of water
3. To produce >one pound< of corn = 168 gallons of water
4. To produce >one pound< of rice = 229 gallons of water
5 To produce >one pound< of soybeans = 240 gallons of water
6. TO PRODUCE >>>>ONE POUND<<<< OF BEEF = 12,009 GALLONS OF WATER (That's A LOT of water)
The statistics for the amount of water it takes to produce one pound of chicken and one pound of pork I promise you are equally as terrifying.
A LOT of people lose their lives (foreign and domestic) over oil. If you believe in a higher being pray to them within your lifetime, your kids' lifetime, and your kids' kids' lifetime they don't live in this world when we start fighting over water because I promise you our fresh water supply will run out. When that happens, things are going to get way way way more ugly than they are now.
Whatever year it is when the first reports come out of the first major city losing its water supply, none of these reports will point a finger towards the meat industry.
Point Two:
- Every 33 seconds someone in the United States dies from cardiovascular disease.
- 250,000 Americans die annually of Sudden Cardiac Death.
- 680 Americans die >>>>every day<<<< of the year from Sudden Cardiac Death
- Someone I cared about very much died this way. Chances are you were close to someone who passed this way too.
I think it's pretty clear that an animal has a mighty powerful last line of defense. If animals could talk like they do in cartoons, they would say, "If you're gonna be idiotic enough to eat me, then I'll just make you suffer before I kill you by clogging your arteries with my fat".
My vote? I say everyone should sacrifice flavor and convenience in order to give the future of humanity a fighting chance.
Let's just look at some facts so we can put our heads together to make the best decisions. For goodness sake, we all share this planet so we should do what makes most sense...........right?
Yeah......I know.......the flesh of an animal tastes and smells good when heat is applied, but believe it or not within the modern world, there are awesome alternatives that save our water supply and won't clog your arteries.
I agree 100% with the woman who started this topic at 4:44 am. No fast food restaurant will ever get a penny from me. In fact, I've taken it a step further. I even refuse to piss or defecate in their toilets.
I won't bother elaborating about my third point about what they put inside of this fast food meat, but I'll tell ya this.........it ain't no different than smoking a cigarette.
again with the appropriate profiles and then what is posted. in this case "geyser". (what is it lately with those? MFP seems to be evolving in self awareness.)0 -
...fast food restaurants? I've been fast food free for YEARS now.
The only way we can make change is with our wallets
Yeah. Keep fighting the good fight.
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I don't eat fast food, but I'm not doing it for any moral or political reasons. I just don't eat unhealthy crap that stinks bad, tastes like garbage and makes me feel sick. In fact, just passing by some of those places the smell turns my stomach. :sick:0
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i have friends who work at mcdonalds.... I help support their paychecks.... plus free nuggets or premium snack wrap is super awesome.. so no. I dont boycott fast food.0
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I think I am going to go out shopping now and maybe even buy some gear at Sports Authority and then grab some fast food at Panda Express or Burger King.
I had the same thought earlier. I'm gonna buy all my workout clothes at Sports Authority. Then for lunch I'm gonna get my favorite Famous Star from Carls Junior, with a bacon cheddar fries from jack in the box, and then a frosty from Wendy's to wash it all down. Then for dessert I'll get some crispy cinnamon thingies from Taco Bell. Should be epic. Then I will wait to die. In my new workout gear.0 -
I love chipotle to much to give it up plus when i was showing horses fast food was better than fair food.0
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I think I am going to go out shopping now and maybe even buy some gear at Sports Authority and then grab some fast food at Panda Express or Burger King.
I had the same thought earlier. I'm gonna buy all my workout clothes at Sports Authority. Then for lunch I'm gonna get my favorite Famous Star from Carls Junior, with a bacon cheddar fries from jack in the box, and then a frosty from Wendy's to wash it all down. Then for dessert I'll get some crispy cinnamon thingies from Taco Bell. Should be epic. Then I will wait to die. In my new workout gear.
You're going to die so much. Probably dead now actually by planning it.0 -
Sort of? I can go months without, but I do find them nice for junk-food snacks. I'm not much for them as meals (tried KFC last week for the first time in probably 2+ years, my dogs ended up with about 80% of my meal, just can't handle it) but every now and then I want french fries without cooking them myself and some of them have the perfect sodas. Mm! I love a cherry coke ; )
I don't think fast food chains are in and of themselves bad or evil, but too many people look to them to provide too much! I remember watching some documentary on Netflix about how this family couldn't afford healthy food, but showed them spending about $16 at a drive-thru for breakfast. I can feed my family a nice, healthy, quick breakfast for less than $5, and there are 5 of us. I counted up the cash that went into a nice Teriyaki dinner I made one night and it was like $7.50. Price definitely deters me.0 -
I love how sassy everyone on this thread is. YES. night made.0
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Nope. I don't boycott fast food places. A few times a month I go to McDonalds and get a snack size M&M McFlurry. 300 calories. If I have the calories left over, I get it.
I just bought my Wendy's USO card. The profits benefit the USO which benefits our soldiers overseas. I'm all for that. You make a purchase at Wendy's and using your USO card you get a free Frosty. Usually I take my kids and we all get Frostys. 300 calories. And right now .50 of each Frosty goes to the Dave Thomas charity for adoption. Another great cause.
It's a win-win. I get a treat (all within my calorie goal) and I'm helping other people.0 -
In fact, just passing by some of those places the smell turns my stomach. :sick:
Ooohhh I love the smell of greasy fries when I drive by. I'm serious.0 -
I eat at Chipotle a lot...A LOT...and Jimmy John's too...
I sincerely hope your wallet doesn't destroy either of these places...
...or I will haz a sad.0 -
I eat fast food occasionally because there is nothing wrong with it. I don't see anything that needs changing so no, I will not be doing any boycotting of any fast food places.0
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Today the fast food mind control agents tried getting me to eat at McDonalds. Sneaky, sneaky. It's a good thing I wear my tinfoil hat everywhere I go these days.0
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I prefer whole, fresh foods. Fast food does not offer this - even their 'healthy' options are processed..0
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...fast food restaurants? I've been fast food free for YEARS now.
The only way we can make change is with our wallets
Yeah. Keep fighting the good fight.
did you see him shape shift??0 -
I eat McDonald's food maybe once a year. I do eat pizza and I'm considering trying a place called the Shake Shack, but it has high quality hamburgers. The junk is in the shakes, which I hear are great. I go to Ben and Jerry's now and then....
I guess I'm not boycotting junk food. But it's not every day.0 -
But where would I get my large diet coke for a buck? I'm mean c'mon.....:frown:0
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I boycott when the service is atrocious and the cleanliness is questionable0
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I love McDonald's. I'll admit it. I don't give a *kitten*. That's how badass I am. Yeah, I know it's bad for me. I still love it. I just don't go there often because it's bad for me.0
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I love me some whole foods, too!
Whole Burger
Whole Frosty
Whole Tacos
Whole Pizza
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In n out that's what a hamburger's all about.....ah crap now I got that diddy in my head....0
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