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Originally Posted by Burninator
McDonald's gets a way badder rap than it deserves. Sure it's not the healthiest food out there, but it's not like McDonald's is doing things to it's menu items to make them worse for you. Potatoes cut and deep fried isn't good for you anywhere you get it from. They sell the same liquid sugar (pop) as everyone else. The problem with McDonald's is that it is easy to get a high caloric meal there and people over indulge (OP for example). You would probably be feeling the same if you had 8 organic burgers verus 8 McDonald's burgers.
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Actually McDs does do things to make the product worse. McDs and like companies put huge pressures on beef producers to grow their products bigger, faster and cheaper. Cattle are raised, densely packed in pens, standing in their own feces for their entire lives and are often covered in it when they arrive at the slaughter houses. They are fed chemical coctails and not an ounce of their native diet, grasses. Hormones and genetically modified corn as well as other not so safe additives speed up the growth process. Corn is not what cattle are meant to eat. Chicken feces is an allowable food for cattle as well as poultry that have died waiting to become McNuggets. McDs and others put pressure on slaughter houses to process faster and thus, less safely. Their are now only 13 slaughterhouses in the U.S. that process well over 90% of the beef sold. We would be naive to think it is any different in Canada. The last concern these companies have for the end product is how it will effect their customer's health. Our food is big business, very big business, nothing else.
No matter how good McDs tastes or how much the kids love their toys, hockey cards and Ronald, they sell poison and they don't give a fiddler's @##% about us or our kids. It's the same story for pork, poultry and even the fish we are eating.
It's might be obvious that this is a bit of a sore spot for me. I have only recently come to realize the scope of these companies deceptions and disregard for us. I now buy only locally grown meat products and organic produce.
Sorry if I derailed the thread, but 8 burgers?
