Yes, please

I would very, very much like a hamburger.

I watched Super Size Me today and instead of turning me off meat or fast food, it just made me a little bit suspicious of this guy's research technique. I'd never watched the movie before and was less than impressed by the way he went about things. Not satisfied to prove that McDonald's is bad for you, he felt compelled to combine every stereotype about fat Americans. He ate nothing that didn't come from a McDonald's for 30 days and also stopped walking any more than strictly necessary and taking any kind of vitamins.

I seriously doubt that there is a significant portion of the population who does all these things. Many people take vitamins and many people eat at McDonald's, some more than others. Many of them are probably the same people, meaning that not everyone who eats fast food forgoes vitamins.

Morgan Spurlock (the director, writer and guinea pig for the film) says himself that the average person living in Manhattan, as he himself does, walks several miles a day. He also tells us that Manhattan has one of the densest populations of McDonald's of anywhere on earth. Clearly, some of the people who live there both eat at McDonald's and walk much more than the average American.

The premise is easily understandable: Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's for a month to prove that doing so, combined with other unhealthy habits, will damage your health. But I can't imagine that the people who live that stupidly even care that it's bad for them.

I don't hate McDonald's or its evil plot to (heaven forbid) sell its food. Morgan Spurlock and his vegan chef girlfriend clearly do. The faces he makes while eating his first few fast food meals leave me in no doubt that he was not unbiased in his experiment. I'm no scientist, but it would make me feel better about his results if he hadn't gone into the project already believing that McDonald's is the devil.

I'm off now to eat my dinner: a pot pie from which I've removed all the meat.