Pledge “IsitWorthit”
"I will stop eating McDonald's during March but only if 100 other people will do the same."
— Jason Podolnick, Is it Worth it? (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: la 1-a de Marto 2009
84 people signed up, 16 more were needed
Country: United States
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The main focus of our project will be to enlighten people about the health issues associated with McDonald’s. McDonald’s uses unhealthy ingredients to make unhealthy food that causes serious problems, including obesity and heart disease. There are few “healthy” selections on the McDonald’s menu. The healthy choices include only a few of the salads (as long as they do not include any chicken or dressing) and a fruit and yogurt parfait. Even the government is recognizing that McDonald’s is not fit for human consumption. The Surgeon General, David Satcher, is calling for a “call to action” against fast food chains such as McDonald’s. “A typical [McDonald’s] Value Meal (Big Mac, medium fries, medium Coke) delivers about 1,200 calories and three-quarters of a day’s quota of saturated fat.”
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Current signatories (
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Jason Podolnick, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Jacob Tannenabum
- Heather Nodler
- Greg Nodler
- Michelle Almog
- Adam Tanenbaum
- Tracy Marbury
- Joshua "The Legend" Rosner
- Darcy
- peri
- aynav
- Ian Rathmell
- Mauria Atzil
- Leah Shkolnick
- Ryan Brown
- Julie Slusky
- Hannah A.
- Jarrett Taxman
- Aaron Atzil
- gaby gorescu
- Luis Molina
- Sam Strum
- Annie
- Ashley Sean Kessel
- Sam Tannenbaum
- Clayton Aptekar
- Ryan Alexander
- Michael "Loser face" Y
- max
- justin sable
- Alix Halter
- Marissa Finkelman
- Amy Feldman
- Lenni Nagler
- Brooke Kantor
- Renee Frederick
- Will Hall
- shelly gordon
- Shannon Ross
- Beth Gordon
- amy levine
- Danielle Levy
- Brit Reiner
- Shana Starr
- Alyssa Kleinman
- dave tomlinson
- marc scheinthal
- hannah hausmann
- Sara Rips
- Edward Levy
- charlie cox
- Jamie Miller
- Misty Ring
- Dana Aboulafia
- A. Schuster
- Carroll Birk
- Liz Mims
- Joshua Blice
- Kersten Biehn
- Courtney Rath
- Seth Finkelman
- Lisa Ratcliff
- Hannah Humphrey
- charlie dreyfus
- Shelby Friedman
- jane kaplan
- Kimberly Cohen
- britany rosenthal
- Alana Schipper
- Natalie Brackett
- Rachel Strum
- ashley funes
- 13 people who did not want to give their names, 2 of whom have done the pledge
1. Why only for a month? How is a month a significant period of time? If McDonalds is so unhealthy, why not stop eating it for a year?
2. The people who are most likely to give up McDonalds for a month are probably people who don't eat their food very often anyway. How can you be sure that the people who actually would benefit from cutting down on their intake of McDonalds products are signing this pledge?
3. Why only McDonalds? Surely every fast food chain has the same problems.
4. How do you justify stating that the unhealthy food made and sold by McDonalds is the cause of obesity and heart disease? Eating unhealthy food most likely contributes to such problems, but causation is much more complicated.