I can't Believe they were Allowed to do this to our Food. Yuck.

[Winter Woman]

After reading this I can't believe we don't have more people with cancer than we do.

After years of trying to break America, Jamie Oliver has finally made his mark by persuading one of the biggest U.S fast food chains in the world to change their burger recipe.


McDonald's have altered the ingredients after the Naked Chef forced them to remove a processed food type that he labelled 'pink slime'.



The food activist was shocked when he learned that ammonium hydroxide was being used by McDonald's to convert fatty beef offcuts into a beef filler for its burgers in the USA.



The filler product made headlines after he denounced it on his show, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.

'Basically, we’re taking a product that would be sold at the cheapest form for dogs and after this process we can give it to humans' said the TV chef.


Jamie showed American audiences the raw 'pink slime' produced in the ammonium hydroxide process used by producers named Beef Products Inc (BPI).



'Pink slime' has never been used in McDonald's beef patties in the UK and Ireland which source their meat from farmers within the two countries.



Now after months of campaigning on his hit US television show McDonald's have admitted defeat and the fast food giant has abandoned the beef filler from its burger patties.


US Department of Agriculture microbiologist Geral Zirnstein agreed with Jamie that ammonium hydroxide agent should be banned.



I'm not sure I'll go to McD's anymore. What else are they putting into their food.

Read the whole article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092127/Jamie-Oliver-Victory-McDonalds-stops-using-pink-slime-burger-recipe.html

 

[cannabineer]

Well damn. I want a Quarter Pounder and not a Royale with Cheese. cn

 

[JohnnyGreenfingers]

And they still sell the McRib. Google the ingredients in that I dare you.

 

[cannabineer]

No thanks. I like me some fast food, but the McRib scares even me. That, and I don't care for BBQ sauce. cn

<edit> awwww; it's CUTE.

Here it is after a week in the fridge ...

 

[medicalmaryjane]

precisely why i don't eat at those types of places.

 

[neosapien]

Lol, McDonalds. I like your mix of stories WW!

Despite the objections of McDonald's, the term "McJob" was added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary in 2003.[SUP][25][/SUP] The term was defined as "a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement".[SUP][26][/SUP] In an open letter to Merriam-Webster, Jim Cantalupo, former CEO of McDonald's, denounced the definition as a "slap in the face" to all restaurant employees, and stated that "a more appropriate definition of a 'McJob' might be 'teaches responsibility.'" Merriam-Webster responded that "we stand by the accuracy and appropriateness of our definition."[

McDonald's has denied feeding its chickens with soya from the Amazon rainforest supplied by agricultural giant Cargill; however, not only did evidences prove this to be true, but also pointed out the soya farmers were linked to the use of slave labors, illegal land grabbing and massive deforestation. It has been calculated that McDonald's and its suppliers are responsible for 70,000 km² of the Amazon's deforestation in the last three years.

 

[JohnnyGreenfingers]

precisely why i don't eat at those types of places.

A-fucking-men

 

[cannabineer]

And they still sell the McRib. Google the ingredients in that I dare you.

McRib ingredients list:
McRib ®&#8224;:
McRib Pork Patty, McRib Bun, McRib Sauce, Pickle Slices, Slivered Onions
McRib Pork Patty:
Pork, water, salt, dextrose, preservatives (BHA, propyl gallate, citric acid)
McRib Bun:
Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, yeast, high fructose corn syrup, contains 2% or less of the following: salt, corn meal, wheat gluten, soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oils, dextrose, sugar, malted barley flour, cultured wheat flour, calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate, soy flour, dough conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate, datem, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides, monocalcium phosphate, enzymes, guar gum, calcium peroxide), calcium propionate (preservative), soy lecithin.
McRib Sauce:
Water, high fructose corn syrup, tomato paste, distilled vinegar, molasses, natural smoke flavor (plant source), food starch-modified, salt, sugar, spices, soybean oil, xanthan gum, onion powder, garlic powder, chili pepper, sodium benzoate (preservative), caramel color, beet powder
Source: nutrition.mcdonalds.com/getnutrition/ingredientslist.pdf

Okaaaay ... it actually looks pretty normal. It's not like there's ammoniated Ethiopian gynecological waste in it or anything.

 

[DSB65]

damn pink slime burgers....

 

[JohnnyGreenfingers]

http://consumerist.com/2011/11/whats-a-mcrib-made-of.html



There's no rib in a McRib. There are about 70 other ingredients. The greatest amount of them come from ground-up low-value pork trimmings mixed together with salt and water to create "meat logs" that are then carved to size. So in what forest do you find a meat log?
McDonald's posts a McRib ingredients list on their website, which is appended to this post. But just reading a raw ingredients list is a little obtuse. Far more revelatory is to hear how the McRib masterminder, Roger Mandigo, a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, described the process behind making "restructured meat products" in Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart:

&#8220;
"Most people would be extremely unhappy if they were served heart or tongue on a plate," he observed. "But flaked into a restructured product it loses its identity. Such products as tripe, heart, and scalded stomachs are high in protein, completely edible, wholesome, and nutritious, and most are already used in sausage without objection." Pork patties could be shaped into any form and marketed in restaurants or for airlines, solving a secondary problem of irregular portion size of cuts such as pork chops. In 1981 McDonald's introduced a boneless pork sandwich of chunked and formed meat called the McRib, developed in part through check-off funds [micro-donations from pork producers] from the NPPC [National Pork Producers Council]. It was not as popular as the McNugget, introduced in 1983, would be, even though both products were composed of unmarketable parts of the animal (skin and dark meat in the McNugget). The McNugget, however, benefited from positive consumer associations with chicken, even though it had none of the "healthy" attributes people associated with poultry.&#8221;
​

Yummy!

 

[darkdestruction420]

You'd be surpsised at alot of the shit we eat. just be glad we didnt live a century ago. Ever read the book "the jungle"? its a good book but disgusting as fuck. Best to not think about whats in food imo. i figure i been eating it my whole life anyway. whats the point in stopping now? you know how many bugs you eat a year? lol.

 

[Unnk]

hunnny

my burger just winked at me

 

[cannabineer]

Imo a lot of the dislike comes from the polysyllabic chemical names of food additives. Take "sodium stearoyl lactylate".

It's fat plus lactic, neutralized with sodium ion. it has the properties of a mild soap combined with two excellent others:
1) it's essentially flavorless, unlike simpler soaps, and
2) it's easily metabolized into good mainline nutrients.
Better living through chemistryyyy! cn

 

[neosapien]

I'm just going to provide my own food from now on. Here kitty kitty kitty.

 

[Unnk]

my dislike of mcdonalds come from the fact it enters my mouth and leaves through my ass in 30 mins flat lol

 

[cannabineer]

my dislike of mcdonalds come from the fact it enters my mouth and leaves through my ass in 30 mins flat lol

I can see how that might be very useful. Does it push everything ahead of it along, or does it slalom? cn

 

[DROPZILLA]

the exact reason why I have been weening myself off eating all meat.. (soda too)
you think McDeezy is the ONLY one doing this?
fuck no, our grocery store meats (including frozen food) have more chemicals than most meth labs
it's fucking disgusting

if I am going to eat fast food it's going to be from In-n-Out
everything from there is always super fresh and they take pride in making QUALITY meals (each one is family owned btw) instead of selling shitty burgers dirt cheap just to make fast cash

fuck large corporations - whole foods and trader joes for the win!!

 

[Unnk]

hahhaha almost as if it does slalom

but no i feel its like a cup of hot boiling acid liquifying all things solids on its way to my ass hole lol

 

[UncleBuck]

if you are driving north on the I-5 through california, take a look to your right after you pass the bakersfield area (near coalinga, i believe) and you will behold the cattle farm that mcdonald's gets so much of its beef from.

clear proof that happy cows do not always come from california. i have been boycotting mcdonalds for some time now based on their treatment of poultry.

 

[JohnnyGreenfingers]

Local known suppliers (lucky) for meat and dairy and tons of options for whatever produce I can't grow. The only things I really have to get commercially right now are stuff like flour and rice and some spices and whatnot. This year I'll add a pasta maker too so I can make and dry all of my own. I trust me.