• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    His documentaries, especially his TV show, were a bit on the questionable side, but I’m sorry he died so young.

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        4 months ago

        His insinuation that McDonald’s caused liver damage in his documentary was pretty questionable especially when it came out that he’d failed to mention his severe alcoholism.

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      4 months ago

      I will never forgive this guy for at the very least being a major contributing factor in having the supersize fries taken off the menu >:(

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        4 months ago

        I’d say he single handedly killed the supersize option at McDonald’s. Though I don’t think this was the point of his documentary, I still think it’s a massive accomplishment by a single person.

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          4 months ago

          Well it’s debatable just how much influence it had, officially McDonald’s says that the documentary had no effect on their decision.

          Buttttt they took it off the menu and started highlighting their healthy options just 6 weeks after it’s release, which is a pretty standard corporate timeline to react to something sooo yea

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            4 months ago

            Admitting a negative documentary impacted your decision making just invites more to be made. Obviously it was the reason. Obviously they’ll never say that.

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    4 months ago

    He’s a good lesson in why you can’t take a documentary as 100% truth, no matter how good it is or how much the message confirms your biases.

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        4 months ago

        turns out that he felt shitty not because of the food but because he was alcohol detoxing at the same time of his mcd experiment.

        I will agree fast food isn’t good for you, but at the same time it’s also not going to do what spurlock portrayed. just take a look at the workers who have been at a place for more than a few years.

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            4 months ago

            In order to maintain his health, he doesn’t eat french fries and walks six miles a day.

            “… And takes a massive amount of undisclosed statins and BP meds,” probably lol. Seriously, I have to wonder though if people like this are bankrolled in some way by fast food to offset the negative publicity they get. Then they (under privacy laws) must offset this stuff privately with their doctor.

            Came up with a new song, Nights in white statinnnnn. Needs some work, though.