One little point about fast food. McDonalds is all over the world, and they are always busy. One of their main things on the menu is a Big Mac. I’m sure, everybody knows about Big Mac.
McDonalds has a policy: they want their Big Macs to taste the same all over the world. No matter where in the world you go and get a Big Mac, it all tastes the same. They get their meat from many-many different places. And the meat tastes different from different places. So they put it together, so it comes out with one taste.
So when you eat a big Mac, you are consuming the meat from approximately 5 000 cows. You get the karma from killing 5 000 cows – in one Big Mac. Not a good idea, very bad choice. These things they don’t tell you. They will never tell you. But it’s true.
So try to stay away from all this fast food, even the vegetarian options [at McDonalds] – there is nothing good there.
There was a movie, maybe you saw it: a documentary called “Supersize me.” Maybe you didn’t see it, maybe you did. But there was a man who decided that he was going to eat nothing but McDonalds for one month: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He had all these tests done before he started. He was in his twenties and he was very healthy: his blood pressure, cholesterol, heart, liver – no problem.
After two weeks of eating McDonalds, his liver was in such bad shape that his doctors told him to stop, but he didn’t, he kept going. By the end of one month, he was almost dead, literally. His cholesterol was off the chart, his liver was at the point of failure, he had gained so much weight – he felt terrible. His blood was in very bad condition – blood pressure was really high. From one month! It took him months to recover on a very strict vegan diet. See, another proof that it’s not a good option.