Sorry, I don’t think I was clear before. The reason I brought up nutritionists: in the movie Spurlock finds that in the legal documents from when Maccas got sued by some girls, they claimed that nutritionists say their food can be part of a healthy diet, and that once a week is an ok frequency to be eating it. Spurlock then rings up 100 nutritionists out of the phone book, and only about 15 (from memory) say that McDonald’s should be part of a well-balanced diet, and then only about once a month or less. Another 2 said that once a week was ok. (Another few said “Oh God no, don’t eat any McDonalds!” which was funny, it’s a funny movie, something that hasn’t been mentioned enough in this thread so far!).
So 98% of nutritionists disagree with the claims McDonald’s make about their food. If I were to eat nothing but vegetables for a month, I wouldn’t be getting a balanced diet, but I wouldn’t have doctors begging me to stop because they feared for my lifeeither.
In my opinion, Russo is nitpicking and he’s misrepresenting the reasons Spurlock did what he did. Spurlock just wanted to talk about obesity and personal responsibility. For Russo to take it personally shows that he’s afraid of what might happen if we make our own decisions instead of letting Maccas tell us they’re all healthy now.
Fair enough. But the purpose of the ads is to make it sound as if Spurlock is being massively unfair to them. Maccas has been serving up crap for over 30 years and they’re only bringing in the healthier stuff now because of public pressure. If it weren’t for court cases and films like this, Supersize would still be on the menu in the US, and we certainly wouldn’t be getting salads or yogurt from them.