I was just thinking about how you told me you ate at Wendy�s (or Hardies or something like that) the other day and I'm thinking its time for some good strong advice.

You are never going to lose serious weight unless you stop eating fast food.

I realize it tastes good and you like it, but the garbage served at fast food joints is barely food. I worked at a McDonald's, and quite frankly its just disgusting. There isn't a single thing on that menu, save maybe a side salad, that isn't absolutely soaked in grease. Even the bun on the burger. And its all frozen together in huge packages, it looks like plastic. Its just not food.

Forgive me, but now that I'm into this schpeal I'm going to talk about animal rights. This is the stuff you always told me not to tell you, but I'm saying it anyway.

The cow you're eating when you bite into a big Mac was tortured. When its born its taken from its mother prematurely, way before a baby should be weaned. From day one it is pumped full of hormones to make it grow fat fast. So by the time its ready for slaughter its grown so massively huge so fast that it can't even stand on its own legs. They buckle beneath it. This cow will more than likely never see the light of day. It will be kept in a cage kept in a cage stacked on top of other cages. Think of hundreds of cages stacked on top of each other, poorly cleaned, so our poor cow that can hardly stand also is probably covered, or at least eating other cows feces. Oh, and by the way the cage its kept in is so small that it can't turn around in it. It will more than likely spend its entire life, save for the slaughter house, in this cage.

It gets worse. When this cow is taken to the slaughter house it will be killed with so many other animals at the same time that it will be done carelessly and painfully. There�s a good chance that our poor cow will be at least halfway conscious while its being skinned before they grind up the meat.

And the patty of cow, slathered in grease, on that big Mac is not just one cow, but ground up bits of a bunch of different cows. You have no idea what you're eating, you couldn't possibly. What different parts of those cows bodies are in that meat patty? Who knows? The fish and the chicken patties are similar, almost worse. They saw off most of chickens beaks when they're born so that they don't peck each other. I've raised chickens myself, and pecking isn't normally a problem, only when they are kept so tightly packed in massive cages that they can't help it. Fish are forced to suffocate to death. Every one of them. Imagine thousands of humans thrashing around in the water while they are being drowned. Its like that for huge nets full of suffocating fish.

Still need more convincing?

McDonald's, Burger King, and all the others buy their food from the cheapest farming companies. These companies are so huge, and treat their animals so poorly that they can afford to buy out any other farmer. Countless local farmers, small farmers, farmers that treat their animals right, lose their jobs and many times their homes to these greedy corporate jerk offs that don't give a shit about the animals or the food. All they care about is money. And thanks to good old McDonald's, or "MacDo's" as its so affectionately called in France, the United States has a worldwide reputation of being full of obese, lethargic American's that eat at McDonald's every single day while watching their fat rolls grow.

Whew. *deep breath*

So what can you do? You could push the mental images I've just given you out of your mind and continue to stop into fast food restaurants for a quick lunch. After all, the few dollars you spend don't seem to matter much. If you do that, though, you are becoming part of the problem. You're giving money to those people who will assure that more cows will be tortured, that your food is covered in grease, that America's worldwide reputation will continue. They will be more than happy to take your money, after all, its what they're all about.

Or you could become part of the solution. A part of the group of people who stand up for the cows in cages, for food that�s nutritious and healthy. (like me! *proud smile*) You don't have to become an activist, but you would be doing more than enough by passing McDonald's by and heading into Sweetwater for a natural and healthy meal.

Not only the cow, the group of activists, and me will love you for that. Your body will too."