{"id":103,"date":"2008-05-28T07:52:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T07:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/2008\/05\/mcdonalds-your-mckilling-me.html"},"modified":"2008-05-28T07:52:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T07:52:33","slug":"mcdonalds-your-mckilling-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2008\/05\/mcdonalds-your-mckilling-me.html","title":{"rendered":"McDonald’s \u2026 You Are “McKilling” Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA \u201cBeef\u201d that I Must Express; Not Suppress \u2013 McDonald\u2019s Coupons are Sending an Unsolicited Fat Ripple throughout my Weight Loss Community<\/em><\/strong>
\nby Janice Taylor<\/a>, Beliefnet blogger!
\nMy Beef with McDonald\u2019s was ignited after reading an e-mail from Our Lady of Weight Loss reader, Gina F.W.<\/em>
\nDear Janice ~<\/em><\/strong> Do you know that Amazon bundled All Is Forgiven, Move On<\/strong> with coupons for McDonald’s southern style chicken sandwiches and breakfast biscuits?
\nMcDonald\u2019s is offering free chicken biscuits and chicken sandwiches, artfully photographed with French fries and Coca-Cola. Of course, you’re not going to go in to pick up your free southern style chicken sandwich without also buying some fries and corn syrup sweetened cola, are you? That’s what the subliminal photo is programming you to do!
\nTut, tut. Very naughty and thoughtless of Amazon and McDonald\u2019s to do that, don’t you think? Almost encouraging one to go on a bender before going back on the wagon. <\/strong>I am going to email both amazon.com and McDonald\u2019s and express my concern at their lack of tact. ~ Gina F.W.<\/em><\/strong>
\nThank you, Gina, for bringing this to my attention. You were the first, but not the last to report the McDonald\u2019s snafu. Others queried: \u201cAre McDonald\u2019s fried foods now an Our Lady of Weight Loss approved item?\u201d<\/em>
\nNO \u2013 McDonald\u2019s fried foods are not Our Lady of Weight Loss approved.
\nNO \u2013 I didn\u2019t know about this.
\nYES \u2013 I am appalled!<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nI suspect that McDonald\u2019s made a thoughtless dea<\/strong>l with amazon.com to include their coupons with a great many books going out. Nevertheless, had this mammoth corporation cared enough about our health, as they say they do, they would NOT have included coupons for free fried foods with books that promote health, wellness and weight loss, such as All Is Forgiven, Move On: Our Lady of Weight Loss\u2019s 101 Fat-Burning Steps on Your Journey to Sveltesville.
\n<\/em>
\nWhen will the corporations stop talking out of both sides of their mouths<\/strong>? On the one hand, McDonald\u2019s says that they support health and wellness; and on the other hand they are sabotaging our efforts to be healthy by including such coupons with books that we purchase to inspire and motivate.
\nMcDonald\u2019s basically threw yet another obstacle in your path to Sveltesville by thoughtlessly and hungrily including their coupon with any and all books.
\nIt is an outrage. McDonald\u2019s, along with the rest of the heap that talk a good game, should be held accountable. People\/Corporations … Walk your talk!
\nI telephoned McDonald\u2019s headquarters yesterday (630.623.3000), and after explaining the \u201cMcDonald\u2019s Snafu\u201d to the telephone operator, I was put through to the legal department where I was met by an answering machine. (Why legal, I asked? Isn\u2019t this a customer relations\/public relations issue? Is it legal???? Hmmmm \u2026)<\/em>
\nI left a message on their legal line and have yet to hear back from anyone. So I\u2019ll post my questions here, and hopefully, they will respond.
\n1. What are you going to do for my readers to make up for this fat-making blunder?
\n2. What level of commitment do you really hold to health?
\n3. How much do you pay those who make thoughtless decisions?
\n4. How about making a healthy Portobello mushroom burger?<\/em>
\nI am ready to forgive and move on, in the spirit of Our Lady of Weight Loss \u2026 AFTER my concerns are addressed. Specifically, I would like an answer to the larger question.
\nTo McDonald\u2019s \u2026 You do so artfully and gracefully dance around our nation\u2019s obesity epidemic<\/strong>. I\u2019d love to know how it feels to do this, knowing full well that your level of commitment is not nearly what it could be, and that you are actually hurting those of us who are doing our best to live a healthy lifestyle by sending us coupons that we did NOT ASK FOR.
\nFYI … I tested this. I ordered All Is Forgiven, Move On from amazon.com and yes, it was bundled in fatty coupons that I did NOT ask for! Get it, McDonald\u2019s \u2026 I\u2019m NOT lovin\u2019 IT!
\nSpread the word (NOT the icing!),
\nJanice<\/em>
\nPS: I am singling out McDonald\u2019s because they purport to support those of us who work toward healthy living. Amazon, to my knowledge, has never made such a claim. They ship books. Period, end of report. McDonald\u2019s feeds us out of both sides of their mouth!
\nFor more tush kickin’ conversation, join Our Lady of Weight Loss’s Kick in the Tush Club<\/a> community.
\nIn need of inspiration, motivation, important information as well as a jolt of fun? Pick up a copy of All Is Forgiven, Move On<\/a>! (and should your book come with a coupon for fried foods, do not succumb!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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