: > Many McDonald's outlets do not provide salads at all. : Good for you Mike, a well-spoken repy. McSpotlight, how about a
: little credit for the good choices available.
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: McSpotlight comment:
: The 'good' choices are not available at all outlets. While they
: might be attempting to supply healthier food options, it does
: not change any of the critisisms about their business practices
: or exploitation of people, animals and the environment for the
: profit of the few. It is also very arguable whether what they
: call healthy option are that healthy. See the evidence of Peter Cox
: where he explained that the company's claim to be concerned about
: healthy eating was not borne out by the products sold. Even their
: salads (still only available in some stores) had a 'ludicrously high'
: fat content (some with over 50% calories from fat).
O.K. but the discussion was about good food choices, not about business practices et al, so no fair dragging such things in because they were not the focus. That is called "brown stamping" and is a very unfair communication technique.
As far as availability, I can only speak for the domestic market, international is a whole different animal and I am not knowledgeable enough to include that in my rebutal.
In the domestic market, salads ARE a required menu item. No choice, you must carry them. As far as the "50%" fat calories, that can ONLY come from the salad dressing people put on their salads, not from the contents of the salads themselves.
ANY dressing is basically all fat. Domestically, there are two low/no fat choices available. Personally, I can barely use 1/3 of a dressing packet on my salad but repeatedly, I have seen customers request multiple dressing packages as well as bacon bits, croutons, etc... so if they are achieving such a high fat content, it is of their own volition.
