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I'm sure that everyone remembers the McDonald's class-action lawsuit from a few years ago; if you don't, then you've been co-habitating the underside of a rock. Somehow, a group of Americans gathered their funds together and decided to lay legal blame for their corpulent bulk to quintessential capitalist corporation of the century. I can almost hear the CourtTV testimonies now, had they actually been allowed to go down:

"Yes, Your Honor, you could say that I was commanded by the cheezy smile of that red-haired man sitting right over there to shove fistfuls of fries, unwillingly, I might add, down my engorged throat."

Please.

America, this is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Did I mention the land of the free? Yes, you can vote for you like, pray what you like, assemble where you like, and, yes, consume what you like. You can, literally, have your cake and eat it too.

One of the characteristics that identifies this generation of America is that we are not the hard-nosed and self-critical patrons that our parents were. We are a society that, for one reason or another, has sunk to the murky depths of entitlement and lack of personal responsibility, and any sight of the surface is but an image in our memories. As it stands currently, smokers are not to blame for their lung cancer, morbidly obese citizens are not to blame for their lack of self-control, reckless women are not to blame for the abortions they might require, and parents who don't know the meaning of discipline are not to blame for their "ADHD" son or daughter whose behavior cannot be tamed.

Fighting the urge to get technical in this article, I'd just like to skim over some known truths about the food supply in general. Red meat has been linked to an increase in cholesterol and heart disease. Salt has been linked to an increase in blood pressure. Diets high in certain kinds of fish have been linked to birth defects. Diets high in sugar have been linked to obesity, and obesity has been linked to a multitude of health problems, the most severe perhaps heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. In fact, anything in excessively gross amounts can probably be linked to cancer. It should become apparent, without me needing to exhaust my resources in doing any google-ing that someone else's fingers could not do, that so-called "dangerous substances" in our food exist and have existed for quite some time - especially in the kinds of food that Americans are know the world

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