[Cvengr]

Yesterday morning, I flipped on the TV as I was getting dressed and happened to catch a Bayer Aspirin commercial that began with a young boy on an inner city playground, perhaps 10 yrs old, watching other kids play basketball. From my recollection, the scene shifted to a blue background with words reading, 'Overcome Homophobia', then the scene continued with a basketball rolling over to the boy's feet and he picks it up and joins the game. The scene changes to another screen with words reading, "Find freedom", then a nother montage of scenes and words indicating overcome heart disease, followed by an endorsement to take aspirin, follwed by the Bayer Logo.

I was shocked that Bayer would encourage homosexuality amongst preeteen adolescents and then have the nerve to associate their product with medical advise. I haven't found a copy of the ad to confirm the exact wording, but the message was clearly sent. Meanwhile, I discovered this intereting beit of trivia between the AHA and Bayer.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Crappiest sub I've ever had. 2 paper-thin pieces of roast beef, 1 piece of cheese, and a tiny amount of lettuce and tomato. No wonder that fat slob lost all that weight eating there. It's 95% bread. I've never gone back and never will.

[garbanzo]

But as at most fast junk food outlets, Coke machines, the rows of bags of chips, and the rubbery chicken and unappetizing beef were screaming ­ unhealthy, stay away.

Is anyone holding a gun to the customer's heads forcing them to buy the less healthy alternatives? You can get a diet soda and baked chips just as easily as the higher fat and calorie options.

[Bob Mc]

Well, you can't blame Subway. They're just protecting their own interstests by paying off the shysters to keep them off their back.

Congress has no business concerning itself with what people eat. The American Heart Association is a sham.

[Modok]

Subway donates considerable money to liberal causes. If you want to help support the democrat party then eat at Subway, because a portion of every dollar you spend there goes in the democrats political pockets and almost none in anything conservative.

The american public health association is one of the foremost liberal support groups in the United States. The work they do with grants keeps the liberal activists funded in your area as well as the rest of the country.

[Oztrich Boy]

Subway sandwiches include such classics as Steak and Cheese, Subway Melt (a first class blend of turkey breast, ham, crispy bacon, and melted cheese) Italian BMT (pepperoni, genoa salami, and ham) and the Cold Cut Trio (turkey based ham, salami, and bologna) ­ not your typical heart healthy sandwiches.

Now I'm hungry

[sphinx]

I wish the busybodies would just open up their own cabbage, tofu, and brussels sprouts emporium and compete in the marketplace with everyone else.

[ikka]

Quizno's seems to have much better subs.

[IronJack]

There may be more Subway locations than McDonalds', but I'll bet MickeyD's shows substantially more gross revenue. Just because you can open a Schlubway in every strip mall from here to Kingdom Come doesn't mean they make any money.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If the American Heart Association shouldn't be taking donations from Subway, the AIDS Coalition shouldn't be taking money from gays.

[The Electrician]

In addition to promoting his beloved Subway and making millions a year doing so, DeLuca wants to bring an Indian gambling casino to Bridgeport, Connecticut.

This article is ostensibly focused on highlighting the 'evils' of cooperation between corporate fast food giants, the government, and the AHA. But, notice how deftly the propagandist switches gears between bashing Subway for the purported unhealthfulness of much of their menu, to bashing the CEO of Subway for the totally unrelated issue of his personal investment in an Indian casino opportunity.

Clearly the junk food angle in the article is a mere pretext for the true agenda of the author. These Commies are so predictable that it is laughable...

[Oztrich Boy]

Oh Look DUde, I found the original source of your message board piece Common Dreams ...views for the progressive community.

[bert]

Subway sells bread and lettuce. There's no junk there because there's no there there.

[discostu]

I think the commercial says "overcome hemophelia" or some other blood disease, totally different stuff.

As for Subway this writer uis a whiney jerk. Basically he's declaring Subway not healthy because, horror of horrors, you can eat unheathily there. Gloss over the fact that it't the easiest fast food place to eat smart at and jump all over the availability of chips and soda.

[FormerACLUmember]

Jared the Subway Guy approves.

[layman]

Subway: The New King of Junk Food

Are all Subways the same? I ask this because my local Subway has a large selection of hot and cold sandwiches, and if you don't like soft drinks you can get milk, which I do. I stop in about once a month, and the last thing I would call it is 'junk food'.

[jpl]

I'll never eat at a Subway again. They're on my permanent boycott list for that cartoon in Europe they put out a couple of years back making fun of America on 9/11.

[martin_fierro]

AS IF.

[Libertina]

They didn't say homophobia you doofus, they said hemaphelia. (Well, however you spell that disease where people bleed to death just from a bruise!) ROTFLOL

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You misread.

The commercial is about hemophilia. A hereditary bleeding disorder. The kid can not run and play because with hemophilia even a small cut or bruise can lead to them bleeding to death.

Bayer has a treatment (Kogenate FS) that they are promoting.

Nothing sexual about it.

[OKIEDOC]

You could order a salad, or a vegetarian sandwich. The chain markets seven subs with six grams of fat or less.

COMMENT:

These guys are a couple of fruit cakes.

However, the AMA, AHA and lots of other groups are for sale.

Your health is all about money, those who have the money have the health, so to speak.

There's nothing like a reformed addict whether it is food or crack.

These people feel they have an obligation to do what ever it takes to meddle in everyone else's private business.

One of the most unappetizing diets known
to man kind is the diet of a vegetarian eater.

The only diet more gagging is the seal blubber diet of the Eskimo.

I believe the sorry tasting plastic veggie burgers and veggie wieners and veggie everything is the reason these people have such a crappy outlook on life and an obsession for telling others how to live.

When I go to the store I see signs such as Organically Grown.

When I see these signs, I know that the store has added 50% to the price just for the vegetarian sucker.

Does anyone really know what organically grown is for sure or do they trust that the plants just survive in the ground all by their lonesome.

The Smoking Nazis got tobacco and now the Food Nazis are out after anyone considered to be overweight.

Funny but when my folks lived down on the farm they grew organically but just did not give a seconds thought that cow poop for fertilizer was organic.