Last Tuesday in the US, McDonalds launched a massive advertising campaign urging Americans to fight obesity by eating healthily and exercising.
Ummmm, does anyone else see a problem with this picture?
Isn’t that like the porn industry sponsoring the silver ring thing?** Or a cigarette company encouraging people to get more fresh air?
Pretty soon McDonalds will be sponsoring Lent.
McDonalds also announced sponsorship contracts with Tennis’s Williams sisters. Now these two sold out long ago, but surely this one takes the cake, I mean, burger. Here’s a message to all those young aspiring athletes for whom Venus and Serena are role models: They didn’t become champions by eating big macs!
** The Silver Ring Thing is a ‘head in the sand’ initiative from America, (the world leaders in teenage pregnancy) to try and encourage young people not to have sex until they are married. Whether it is a good idea for these people to breed at all is another matter, for another day’s blog.
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