“May I have a class-action lawsuit with that?”

The obesity debate has become extremely polarized, as the blame-game continues.
It picked up some steam as soon as McDonald’s announced that it was discontinuing its super-sized servings. These days, anything McDonald’s does is fodder for journalists, because it’s such an easy story to cover –especially since they can play the blame game no matter what side they take.

A Wall Street Journal Editorial (titled “Supersized silliness”) in March 2004 put it this way:

“If we want the country to resemble Jennifer Aniston rather than 747s, we first have to face up to what’s really causing the bulge.”

ABCs Peter Jennings put it this way:

“According to data from the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Working Group, sugars (and) fats, the foods the government says we should eat least, got 20 times more subsidies that fruits and vegetables.”

And, in a sound byte befitting the current war on everything, the president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hit out at the burger:

“The most prolific weapons of mass destruction in this country are the cheeseburger and a soda.”

The voices that are least heard are those who blame the real culprit: the people who drive up to the restaurant, pry open their wallets, order the product, and actually ingest something they don’t have to.

The restaurant isn’t responsible for making make you obese, any more than a grocery store is responsible for making you buy lettuce, or Krispy Kreme is responsible for pushing up your calorie count for selling you doughnuts!