two people rated the bad impact of dunkin higher than the good impact of fair trade, but they were two and 82 were on the other side. will be curious to see how this shifts over time; what a second look causes the community to do.

kevindoylejones: If a story is about Fair Trade coffee, you should rate the impact of that, not the overall impact of Dunkin’. Instead, you should submit another story (like this one) pointing to the thing to which you want to draw attention.

I happen to like donuts and all their transfatty goodness. Granted, donuts fried in animal fat tend to taste better, but Dunkin’s aren’t all that bad. I suppose I also believe in a little personal responsibility…basically that if you value your health, you should probably not eat several donuts a day. Just a thought is all. If anything, pat Dunkin’ Donuts on the back for making the trans fat content available…most companies don’t.

I always thought that it might be interesting to see how restaurant venues ranked based on the percentage of items on their menus deemed healthy, by some reasonable standard.

I agree that “personal responsibility,” as you share, dsk, is important, but I also think that part of a company’s impact on the world is its impact on the well-being of people. Just because there is a demand for something doesn’t mean that it is ethical to sell whatever it is until that demand is met. For lack of a less extreme example, consider heroine… plenty of demand, but not necessarily an ethical product to sell.

Whether it’s for health freaks, people with allergies, ethical or religious restrictions, restaurants should always be transparent about what’s in the food they serve.

Still, I think companies need to consider whether some ingredients are really necessary. Hydrogenated oils, food colouring (including dubious ones like Tartrazine) and additives like MSG are all pretty difficult to defend from an ethical stand point.

I do have to say that of all the fast food venues I’ve seen, Dunkin Donuts is probably the most transparent about the nutritional content of its food (nutritional facts, allergy info, the works):

https://dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/nutr…

If the best comparison you can come up is heroin, then I suggest you rethink your position on this.

Are you arguing that anything that might be deemed “bad” by the media should be outlawed or controlled? Or any company producing such items should be reprimanded or at least shunned?

Transfats were discovered by Dr keys to be very bad and the reason in the massive jump in heart problems issues in the 50s however the edible oil industry put a spin on it and blamed the animal fat for being the reason for the massive increase in hear dieses so they should have been banned in the 1950s but Corporate America simply covered it up however since there were a lot of studies in the 50s and 60 on how really bad this crap is it finally come out to the general public How to get rid of equally bad crap such as High Fructose Corn Syrup and MSG who also getting a corporate spin now on how safe they are