i watched super size me this weekend and i have to say that it shared the shit out of me. not that i ever really eat fast food, and certainly not mcdonald’s, but just seeing what fast food can do to a person’s body just puts the fear into me that everything we’re eating is potentially scary and horrific. if he was killing his liver with that high-fat diet, who knows what we’re unwillingly unleashing on our poor kidneys and livers?
the most frightening thing was the little short in the extras where they took various mcdonald’s burgers and then one from a real restaurant, and watched them decay over several weeks. you saw how the regular one got moldy after just a week, but how some of the mcdonald’s ones almost wouldn’t break down even after several weeks. and the scariest thing of all was that the french fries didn’t break down at all. they didn’t get moldy or anything. five weeks later, they looked like they could have been a day old, just a little soggy. how fucked up is that?
maybe this is just desserts since i’ve been all haughty about this whole raw food movement and all of those damn raw food restaurants that are popping up around the city. and now seeing this, who knows? maybe raw food is the only way to go to get something that won’t fuck you up?
i think that super size me along with the body worlds exhibit has just underlined for me the myriad of things that can go wrong with your body (tumors, melanomas, growths, etc.), just how incredibly fragile we are, and how improbable it is that we even function as living organisms. now i’m afraid that any little thing will send it all crashing down.
so now i’m suspicious of all food. everything. not that i eat that much anyway, but maybe that’s for the best. what you don’t eat can’t hurt you.
Posted at October 19, 2004 11:33 PMi think what’s more amazing than the fact that all these things *can* go wrong with our bodies is that more of them don’t. most of us are healthy most of the time despite viruses, bacteria, toxic environments and fries that just won’t die. and somehow our bodies actually manage to extract some food from a chemical-laden mcdonald’s burger. now *that* is cool.
Posted by: mac at October 20, 2004 4:00 PMwhat really freaks me out is that all this shit works even when there’s something incredibly wrong. seeing these huge tumors in livers and hearts and brains and knowing that the body just kept working is amazing and creepy.
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