So, I read an article in USA Today about an anti-meat advocacy group calling a restaurant owner immoral because a customer had a heart attack while eating a 6,000 kcal burger in his restaurant. Here's my take on the article and what this advocacy group has to say:
These people are stupid... The man who had the heart attack already had a heart condition while he was eating the burger. It's not going to cause a heart attack as he is eating the burger, so the restaurant is not at fault. The man who had the heart attack is the person at fault here. No one forced him to go in there and try to eat a 6,000 kcal burger. I'm sure his eating habits were already poor to say the least.
Shutting the restaurant down isn't going to stop people from their bad eating habits over long periods of time which is what caused the man to have a heart attack. The restaurant owner expressed sorrow for the victim and was upset at the tourists for taking pictures, so I don't see the owner as being immoral, he's just making money off of people's stupidity, but hasn't that been done for centuries? Why doesn't this advocacy group go after hookers for being immoral or why don't they go after marathoners for abusing their bodies during long runs because they have heart attacks too. I just don't understand why groups like this have to make an issue out of everything.
These are people's choices that they make. We live in the United States of America and people have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies and business owners have a right to make money off of stupid people. This Anti-meat Advocacy Group has the right to say what they want about this, but calling the restaurant manager immoral is just stupid because they don't know the man and he's just making a living off of stupid people legally. It's not like he's out selling drugs which is illegal and, to me, is immoral.
That's my 2 cents on the issue.
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