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Dealing McDonald's food is more addictive (look at all the people it hooks compared to meth) and far more physically damaging.


People are not "addicted" in any meaningful sense of that word to McDonalds.

Misuse of language harms the works that people do to tackle obesogenic companies like McDonalds.


mcdonalds is far more physically damaging than meth? Why do I get the feeling you've never been around either?


I guess the total cost of meth would be hard to calculate, but I'm totally confident that the health costs tied to obesity are far more damaging than meth. Meth just isn't as common as obesity.


People do crazy shit on meth though, add that to your calculations. Don't think anyone's really killed anyone for a cheeseburger.


Yes, this is precisely the indirect cost I alluded to in my immediately previous comment. That said, far more (several orders of magnitude more) people die from cheeseburgers than (directly or indirectly) from meth. In human lives, McDonald's is by far the greater risk.

We need a War on Food.


Who's hooked on McDonald's food? And I'm pretty sure McD's isn't that bad.


I'm old enough to remember when arcade cabinets used to start with "Winners Don't Use McDonalds" before the intro screen.




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