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Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 15:00:00 PM PST
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I skipped out on the Super Bowl, so I didn't see the Dennys ad offering up free food. Or as Grist more accurately calls it, free corn with a side of petroleum. Here's what they had to say about the free giveaway of the two eggs, two sausages, two slices of bacon, and two pancake breakfast:
The Denny's stunt is, well, really a sad statement about the American way of food. Fast food chains are part of a vast system of agriculture and industrial processing that is made possible by one thing and one thing only -- cheap oil. It's cheap fuel that powers the synthetic fertilizer that nourishes the thousands of acres of corn planted and harvested by a a handful of combine drivers. Cheap gas transports that corn to factory farms to feed poultry and livestock that are then processed and trucked across the country to the nearest store. It's a system that pumps tons and tons of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere every day, harming the climate every day.
And the result? Customers lined up for their free 770 calories and 44 grams of fat. Does that calorie count include the high fructose corn syrup masquerading as maple syrup that people dump on their pancakes? |
| Jill Richardson :: And We Wonder Why We're Fat... |
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