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Yes, it's a bit distracting. You're not going to talk me out of my knowledge that eating too much salt, animal fat, and refined carbohydrates is bad for your health. Also, I'm unaware of people who want to ban McDonald's. I suppose I would rank those people right up there with the people who are afraid the government is going to take away all the guns. You know, extremists.
So to summarize, 1) you won't convince me that McDonald's is healthy, 2) I don't support the idea of a Food Police, and 3) if you are afraid of America becoming a totalitarian state, you're being a bit irrational to say the least.
I guess the core of the matter is, again, how we manifest and how we register fear. Fear often makes one think irrationally because its mechanism doesn't easily distinguish harm from harmlessness. It's a survival mechanism, of course. It's normal to fear danger, but when the chance of that danger is a long shot, it becomes irrational rather quickly.
If I had to choose, though, I assume I would be more afraid of McDonald's and its effect on my children's health than I am of the government tossing out the Constitution. Junk food is bad for you right now. What the government might do to you in your mind is generally harmless except in the unlikelihood that it comes true...or maybe if it causes some kind of psychosomatic illness.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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