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Originally Posted by coaster
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.
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Do you have evidence that this is adverse to the animals health and thus the quality of the beef? I'm sure their lives aren't great, but I can't see how a sad cow would taste different. Humans eat genetically modified corn and other foods and there is no evidence that it is adverse to our health. It would be no different for cattle.
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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.
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It's more economical to have large slaughterhouses for distribution. If a big business is making an unsafe product people would know about it and stop buying and it would put the company out of business. You have no evidence to assume that because they are a big company they are being unsafe and don't care about their customers health.
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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?
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Again do you have any evidence that the way McDonald's produces it's food is any worse for you than your locally grown and organic food?