{"id":1117,"date":"2004-09-28T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T19:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/28\/mcmoralism\/"},"modified":"2004-09-28T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T19:13:45","slug":"mcmoralism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"McMoralism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really enjoyed this Spiked Online review of the anti-McDonalds documentary Super Size Me<\/i>. <\/a>Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

Super Size Me<\/i> chimes with the times. On both sides of the Atlantic there’s a large portion of moralising in the panics over obesity, school dinners, junk-food-guzzling and the rest. What is presented as straightforward medical concern for our health and wellbeing is often really a judgement on lifestyle and behaviour – and especially the lifestyle and behaviour of a certain class of people. In debates about ‘bad’ foods (McDonald’s), fast foods (microwave meals), and fat mums in clingy leggings who make their kids fat too by feeding them ‘junk’, there’s a barely concealed contempt for the working classes, who are presumed to be lazy, feckless and not sufficiently concerned with healthy cooking and fitness.<\/div>\n

Via Arts & Letters Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really enjoyed this Spiked Online review of the anti-McDonalds documentary Super Size Me. Here’s a sample: Super Size Me chimes with the times. On both sides of the Atlantic there’s a large portion of moralising in the panics over … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}