{"id":533,"date":"2010-11-20T11:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=533"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:32","slug":"pick-your-poison-tobacco-vs-fast-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2010\/11\/pick-your-poison-tobacco-vs-fast-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Your Poison, Tobacco vs Fast Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting take mirroring societies reaction and regulation of big tobacco with the fast food industry, which, sadly, seems to be causing more harm to western civilization than tobacco ever did.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Think about the people who tell you to buy their products. Many  Americans grew up watching Ronald McDonald saying that Chicken McNuggets  were just about the greatest food ever conceived. The Trix Rabbit\u2019s  countless failed attempts to get a bowl of our cereal made us cherish  each sugary bite. Now think about those old commercials from the 1950s,  when Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble light up a Chesterfield in the  backyard or Lucille Ball makes Ricky happy by handing him a Phillip  Morris cigarette. Why does one seem innocent and the other strangely  evil? Imagine for a moment if history had played out differently, if  respective epidemics were sensationalized at opposite times and a  generation of Americans grew up with an alternative version of the  demonized Big Tobacco industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article by Demian Kendall at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splicetoday.com\/politics-and-media\/pick-your-poison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpliceToday.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting take mirroring societies reaction and regulation of big tobacco with the fast food industry, which, sadly, seems to be causing more harm to western civilization than tobacco ever did. Think about the people who tell you to buy their products. Many Americans grew up watching Ronald McDonald saying that Chicken McNuggets were just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,382],"tags":[232,233,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}