Soo... McDonalds..

[animal_lover03]

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I heard the chicken nuggets aren't actually made of chicken meat. Its actually the gizzards and leftovers from the chicken, and they grind it up and add stuff to make it taste like chicken, ewwwww..... I'm never eating anyhting from McDonalds again.

 

[thebritt]

I stopped eating fast-food beef back in 1985, when, while doing resaerch for a paper while in college, I learned that the phrase "100% US Grade A Beef" meant that the beef had been STAMPED "U.S." as it crossed the border INTO the U.S.! At that time (1985), Government documents had been made public. I searched microfische (anyone remember that stuff?) and found that millions upon millions of lbs of beef were imported specifically for the fast food industry. I was more upset about the decimation of millions of acres of rainforest that had to be cut & burned to make way for cattle, and the subsequent erosion and flooding due to removal of the forest. Turns out, the soil there is essentially non-existant. The trees support the top layer of the ground with their own roots. Their nourishment comes from the top>down, not the ground>up. When the trees are removed, the "soil" can only support cattle for about 2 years. Then they have to cut more, etc, etc.....

 

[agnes_day]

i love their chicken nuggets, dipped in honey or barbeque sauce!

 

[StupidBird]

Ooops, glad I started researching this first...my BIL and I love shooting down each other's email forwards like this.

Here's what the Oklahoma State Agricultural Board's site has:

http://agblog.ok.gov/2009/02/03/fraudulent-mcdonald’s-rumor-circulating-again/

But I still AIN'T gonna eat at McDonalds!!!! Too many reasons to list. Like I trust the Gov't to inspect stuff properly overseas when there are so many problems here. I personally inspected the butchering facility where my little steer went from truck to little white paper packages. Small, old, well-worn generations-old equipment, but very spotless, and regularly inspected by the county. They make great pork sausage for local sales too. Ooops, once again approaching ranting speed.

 

[HorseFeathers]

Did you know they use wheat flour instead of dairy in their milkshakes?

 

[DTchickens]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/mcdbeef.asp


Wow... 10 or so posts in just a few minutes.. Either way, i stopped eating the McDonalds food long ago, just isn't good and most of the restaurants are disgusting now.

 

[wombat]

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<sigh>

Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream: Milk, sugar, cream, nonfat milk solids, corn syrup solids, mono- and diglycerides, guar gum, dextrose, sodium citrate, artificial vanilla flavor, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, disodium phosphate, cellulose gum, vitamin A palmitate.
CONTAINS: MILK.
Vanilla Syrup: Corn syrup, water, natural flavor (plant source), caramel color, citric acid, pectin, sodium benzoate (preservative), yellow 5, yellow 6. May contain small amounts of other shake flavors served at the restaurant, including egg ingredients when Egg Nog Shakes are available.

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http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/itemDetailInfo.do

My brother used to build spray dryers to convert trees to cellulose (well the spray dryer is at the end of that process) ... so your milk shake has no wheat flour, but it does have MILK ... and .... wait for it .... TREES!

The cellulose is in there as a thickening agent, gets you a thicker shake without using as much expensive, high-calorie fats. It's added to a lot of foods, btw.

 

[debilorrah]

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<sigh>

Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream: Milk, sugar, cream, nonfat milk solids, corn syrup solids, mono- and diglycerides, guar gum, dextrose, sodium citrate, artificial vanilla flavor, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, disodium phosphate, cellulose gum, vitamin A palmitate.
CONTAINS: MILK.
Vanilla Syrup: Corn syrup, water, natural flavor (plant source), caramel color, citric acid, pectin, sodium benzoate (preservative), yellow 5, yellow 6. May contain small amounts of other shake flavors served at the restaurant, including egg ingredients when Egg Nog Shakes are available.

From:
http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/itemDetailInfo.do

My brother used to build spray dryers to convert trees to cellulose (well the spray dryer is at the end of that process) ... so your milk shake has no wheat flour, but it does have MILK ... and .... wait for it .... TREES!

The cellulose is in there as a thickening agent, gets you a thicker shake without using as much expensive, high-calorie fats. It's added to a lot of foods, btw.

I used to tell my son chicken nuggets were ground up duck beaks.... He also though fish sticks were made out of chicken.

 

[Emzyyy]

MMM I don't really eat at Mccydeees anyway

, I guess I never will now. They don't really have good food anyway.

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

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I think I wrote the same paper!