Dave wrote:is that where the guy ate McD 3 times a day for an entire year to show he would get fatter?
Replace year with a month and then you're right. I doubt this guy would've lived through a year of eating McCrap. Hell, he was doing a good job of destroying his liver after a month. He was consuming on the order of 5000 calories a day!
The movie was inspired by people who are going after McD's and food producers in general because they're feeding us crap. The courts said, that in order for a person to win the case, they'd have to prove that McD's intends to hook people into eatting out all the time. Of course, any business wants to get people addicted to their product, but like smoking, fast food is deadly when had often over long periods of time. One might argue that too much of anything is bad, and you'd probably be right. Still, McD's has a culture of ingraining into kids that it's cool and fun and everyone's doing it, which carries into their adult life kinda like brain washing.
Interestingly enough, the movie branches out to show that schools are serving the same preprocessed crap to kids. The schools also turn a blind eye to the kids just buying fries or sodas and assume they brought something healthy from home (which is preposterous). Anyways, this poor behavior has caused some school districts to start banning all sorts of vending machines. The food industry has been battling this move saying that it's unfair, but they're more concerned with how this affects their bottom line than the health benefits for our nation's children.