Posted on 12/31/2012 12:10:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
The controversial fast-food chain publishes a children's book loaded with half-truths about farms and animals
As my son enters the so-called Terrible Twos, I’ve become keenly aware of one thing that makes them so terrible: awareness. After 24 months outside the womb, kids slowly but surely start becoming cognizant of what they have, what they don’t have — and what they want. At this point, too, kids begin more fully processing how the world works — or at least what the world is telling them about how the world works.
Advertisers obviously know all of this. They not only know that kids will go full-on terrible in annoying their parents into buying stuff they realize they want, but also that two-year-olds are already starting to develop their own future preferences. Hence, when my son hears the discrete piano tune and Ed Harris’ soothing voice on the radio and then cheerily shouts “Home Depot,” it is a sign that he is already equating home projects with the local-business-crushing orange Godzilla — just as that Godzilla’s marketing team hopes. Same thing for the Happy Meal, whose child-focused marketing equates junk food with emotive joy and cheap toys — a terrible-yet-irresistible combination for a two-year-old.
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“Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too “
“But before we cede the entire moral penthouse to “committed vegetarians” and “strong ethical vegans,” we might consider that plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok than a hog aspires to being peppercorn-studded in my Christmas clay pot. ....
Now what are you going to eat, David Sirota?
The way the son is being raised is like those who shoot up schools and shopping malls when they reach adult age.
I thought it was a leftist "mom" too, until I actually read the article and found it was the father (maybe one of the "fathers") of a 2 year old who wrote this feminine drive.
Mark
Deliver me from fools!!! Go suck an egg, David Sirota....or would that be exploiting chickens? Sheesh!!
Poor kid. No masculine role model in that family.
I wish I could be President. At Thanksgiving I would have PETA at the White House. I would have the cameras there to let them think I was going to pardon the turkey. I would chop the head off that thing let run.
It sure did. I wonder if he even has a son.
I’m thinking about having a chicken sandwich about now.
Was that statement a clue?
I TRIED to read the article, but the propaganda psychobabble swam before my eyes and all blended together into a meaningless mush.
I just can’t believe that idiots like this exist in this country. We’ve let this crap go on for far too long.
The results of the 2012 elction weren’t a clue to you?
My comment about this sissy and the 2012 election results aren’t mutually exclusive. I’ll say again - I just can’t believe that idiots like this exist in this country.
He looks rather delicate. Hasn’t ever done any physical labor, would never drive a truck, and is in facial competition with any woman he meets. He is an unmanly mess.
A major source of the gains from the division of labor is that the production of everything tends to be carried on by those who are able to do it best. Economic competition is the process of establishing who is able to produce things best.It is the process that establishes not only which individuals are best suited in the eyes of the market for all the various occupations, from wealthy businessman on down to janitor, but also which products are best suited for any given market, and which technological methods are best suited for the production of any given prodct
I think this guy might have a “chick” problem.
It's rare.
There are a lot of studies which confirm that after a (typically brief) rejection phase adult children share their parents values and worldview by overwhelming majorities
This is really him...
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