Thought they had already left. Good decision for Russia and for Russians' health, to be honest.
Calling a food unhealty is quite silly to me, anything is unhealty if you consume it in unhealty amounts.
The above statements obviously exclude things like cyanide and other things designed to kill humans, I'd call them lethal.
FWIW IMO this is true for many countries.
>The above statements obviously exclude things like cyanide and other things designed to kill humans, I'd call them lethal.
How about sugar...?
PS: I'm not watching and hour 30m long video for you to get your point through, excessive sugar is bad yes (if that's your point).
Incorrect. Your body can and will convert fat into carbohydrates
>PS: I'm not watching and hour 30m long video for you to get your point through
Perhaps if you did, you wouldn't say silly things like:
>Calling a food unhealty is quite silly to me
Learning about the science of food and how different types affects people's bodies takes time
But closing the door for people who don't have issues with self-restraint feels like collective punishment. (Not that Maccas are in the wrong here, they can open and close restaurants wherever they want, I don't mind.)
Companies in the US pretty much have had a free-for-all on the population.
We have different views here, even though I admit, I used to be ambivalent about that (and about drug legalisation) until very recently. I mean, I would certainly not criminalise drug possession and drug use like it unfortunately still is the case in my country (Romania), but I've started having very serious doubts about legalising distribution, and in so doing "normalising" said drug use.
Back to unhealthy food, unfortunately some people are too weak to resist eating above a certain healthy threshold. There were studies that blamed the food companies themselves for that, there are other people that blame the users themselves (like you seem to do), but in the end the unhealthiness wins. That's why if the unhealthy source goes away (like in this case with Russia and McDo) I see it as a positive, no matter who was at fault the rot source is gone, that's got to be good.
Food on the other hand, while it's addictive it's also essential for literally everyone. I for example am such a lazy piece of shit that I haven't cooked in years, for me it would be devastating if the unhealty but calorie rich and affordable food went away.
That's an anecdote, but yes if access to high-calorie food is limited people are less likely to get/stay overweight.
Norway has a thing for this to reduce candy intake, they have a sugar tax. And while I'm not all for the government taking all my money, in a socialist society I think it makes perfect sense to tax something that'll cause a significant amount of people health issues to pay for it in advance. Same with cigarettes, they're super expensive in Norway, so that you've hopefully somewhat paid off your lung-cancer treatment once/if you get it.
There's no one size fits all for this, but there are definitely things we should keep out of peoples hands. I do not however think food is one of those.
Probably whatever oligarch buys it will buy it for cheap and will cash in big time when McDonald's buys it back, so a big cash flow to supporters of the regime...
When companies jump the ship this soon, makes you wonder how big of an economy Russia actually is.
It's a big move for McD, they are probably the only foreign chain that actually owns most of its restaurants rather than just franchising them out.
Edit: I did hear some McD locations got 're-branded'. I'm not sure whether those were the franchised restaurants that turned or someone actually expropriated McDonalds' assets.