How The Continued Presence Of Fast Food Explains Climate Change Denial

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A young girl in England recently went to McDonalds. This is what she told a British paper about her visit:

“I was about to eat my french fries when I saw a greasy one, and then it moved.”

The creature was sent away for analysis. Some people think it’s a worm, while others are convinced that the little horn atop its head means it’s a slug. My bet is that regardless of what it turns out to be, someone’s gonna get served a fat, curved french fry with a little horn in the future.

Memo

I have a simple rule when it comes to food. I only eat at places that can’t afford to get hit with a big lawsuit. The opposite of this type of place, of course, is fast food. Consider the Fortune 500 company that owns KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and others. According to Wikipedia, this company has 41,000 restaurants in 125 countries. The following is a tiny sampling of things that have happened at these “restaurants”:

* A customer found human blood in his Taco Bell (one of the employees had gashed their finger open and leaked blood all over the “meal”). But that pales in comparison to:

* A guy bit into a slice from Pizza Hut. His teeth hit something strange. It turned out to be a bloody band aid baked right into the crust. He kept his head about him, which leads us to:

* A woman shook out the contents of her box of Chicken McNuggets. One nugget didn’t look right. It turned out to be a deep-fried chicken head. She definitely wasn’t “Lovin’ it.”

After these incidents happen the companies react quickly to address the primary issue. They hold a high-level meeting and ask “What is this going to do to our brand-image and the stock price?”

But people keep coming back. Yes, fewer each year. But for some, it doesn’t matter how threatening it gets, or how often shocking things happen. They won’t change their behavior. That record-setting heat we’re seeing this year? The mega-droughts and massive fires? They’re simply an anomaly. Just like that deep-fried mouse some guy bit into at Popeye’s Chicken.

 

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