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Chick-fil-A’s Latest Horror
Salon ^ | THURSDAY, DEC 27, 2012 | DAVID SIROTA

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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To: Kent1957

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html?_r=2&em&;

“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?


21 posted on 12/31/2012 12:53:12 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: nickcarraway

The way the son is being raised is like those who shoot up schools and shopping malls when they reach adult age.


22 posted on 12/31/2012 12:55:26 PM PST by sport
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To: miserare
So why doesn’t this stupid bimbo mom just turn off the TV? Better yet, get rid of it altogether!

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

23 posted on 12/31/2012 12:55:39 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: nickcarraway

Deliver me from fools!!! Go suck an egg, David Sirota....or would that be exploiting chickens? Sheesh!!


24 posted on 12/31/2012 12:57:30 PM PST by rejoicing
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To: nickcarraway
FTA: It’s been that way because my son loves the book, and I’m too much of a pushover to say “no.” I’m also thankful that he wants to read anything, so I go ahead and read it to him. What a dip-stick. Successfully bullied by a two-year-old.
25 posted on 12/31/2012 12:58:36 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: nickcarraway

Poor kid. No masculine role model in that family.


26 posted on 12/31/2012 12:59:45 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


27 posted on 12/31/2012 1:00:14 PM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: Cyber Liberty; Pinkbell

It sure did. I wonder if he even has a son.


28 posted on 12/31/2012 1:01:25 PM PST by darkangel82
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To: nickcarraway

I’m thinking about having a chicken sandwich about now.


29 posted on 12/31/2012 1:03:49 PM PST by marron
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To: nickcarraway

30 posted on 12/31/2012 1:04:14 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: nickcarraway
The controversial fast-food chain

Was that statement a clue?

31 posted on 12/31/2012 1:05:55 PM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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To: nickcarraway

I TRIED to read the article, but the propaganda psychobabble swam before my eyes and all blended together into a meaningless mush.


32 posted on 12/31/2012 1:11:41 PM PST by left that other site (Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
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To: nickcarraway

I just can’t believe that idiots like this exist in this country. We’ve let this crap go on for far too long.


33 posted on 12/31/2012 1:14:12 PM PST by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: APatientMan

The results of the 2012 elction weren’t a clue to you?


34 posted on 12/31/2012 1:15:47 PM PST by sport
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To: sport

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.


35 posted on 12/31/2012 1:18:47 PM PST by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: FredZarguna

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.


36 posted on 12/31/2012 1:20:04 PM PST by healy61
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To: nickcarraway
Chick-fil-A is one of the major fast-food players responsible for the demise of “Jolly Barnyard”-esque family farms.

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

37 posted on 12/31/2012 1:21:05 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: nickcarraway

I think this guy might have a “chick” problem.


38 posted on 12/31/2012 1:26:15 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Twotone
That's not common.

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

39 posted on 12/31/2012 1:27:04 PM PST by FredZarguna (Cryin' won't help ya, prayin' won't do ya no good. When the levee breaks, momma you got to move.)
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To: nickcarraway
Every day, after reading his son this book, poor David Sirota has to take a shower to wash off the stink of meat from the book.

This is really him...

40 posted on 12/31/2012 1:29:54 PM PST by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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