Fast Food Nation....

[rossja]

I just finished waking up, showering, and will be heading into work soon. I thought I would do the normal check your email activities before leaving as well, when I came acoss this article that totally conincides with Fast Food Nation that I finished yesterday.  Basically people in Britain stopped buying McDee's on a regular bases because of the on going problem with obesity.  So McD is actually taking steps to regain customers by, "new choices such as fresh salads, free-range eggs, semi-skim organic milk and fruit", and "reducing its portion sizes."  Now if we could just get them to do that here or something instead of making super super super size - an entire weeks worth of calories in one sitting.

Here's the link if you're interested:   Yahoo story link

Comments

[mcniadh.livejournal.com]

I think if the response to the new McD menu is overwhelmingly positive (i.e., McDonald's makes money off it) then they will try it here as well. One thing I picked up from reading FFN is that McDonald's is neither good nor evil, they just go where the money is. If there's money in making people fat and unhealthy, then that's what they do. If there's money in recycling, reducing packaging, and minimizing the risk of mad cow disease in their beef, then that too is what they do. They were able to use their immense buying power to make their cattle suppliers certify the feed when government regulations could not.

[rossja.livejournal.com]

This is true...it's all about the almighty McDollar.

[riffalike.livejournal.com]

<a href="..."> is your friend.

[rossja.livejournal.com]

If you mean how I could've linked the site. I tried using the short cut bar because I don't know how to do it otherwise. So are you saying that I can do and it would link it automatically? If so, good to know. I was wondering about that. If not, then huh? :)

[riffalike.livejournal.com]

This text:

<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041013/ap_on_bi_ge/mcdonald_s_logo_1">Yahoo story link</a>

Would look like:

Yahoo story link

I thought LJ automatically made a link for such things. I'm lazy and I don't so much care for cutting and pasting links.

[rossja.livejournal.com]

Thanks, you learn something new every day. woohoo!! :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_earthshine_/]

So while you're consulting, how do you make the lesser-than greater-than characters show up in the final product like you did above? I tried backslashing them out (UNIX geek) but that didn't work. :(

[riffalike.livejournal.com]

&lt; translates to <
&gt; translates to >
(and &amp; translates to &)

Also check w3.org for other characters.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_earthshine_/]

>Wickit!< Thanks! :)

[riffalike.livejournal.com]

Yeah, semicolons are key. They delimit the end of the escape sequence.

[rossja.livejournal.com]

oh man...see you didn't put that in the instructions before, I would've messed it up again. :) It's all good though.