Everything is bad for you. Food is bad for you. Food—something you need in order to stay alive—is killing you right now. Food hates you. But food cannot be held accountable for its diabolical actions, even if Morgan Spurlock thinks otherwise. Spurlock is the director of the new documentary Super Size Me. The film chronicles Spurlock’s performance-testing on his own thirty-two-year-old body: For thirty days, he ate nothing but food from McDonald’s. If it wasn’t on the menu, he did not consume it. (For example, he wouldn’t even take aspirin, as McDonald’s does not offer pharmaceuticals.) Within
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