horrible truth about the US and Fast Food

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ok maybe it has been discussed befor but with new surveys out and this little website

The meat Junkie

can americans see enough in 3 squares a day of a mixed diet?

Kalina

I wouldn't class Ronald McDonald as a friendly clown though. I think he's freaky!!

tHE vAGGABOND

read the book "fast foot nation" and never eat it again

Thanx 4 The Fish

Has anybody read/seen IT ?
Ronald Mc reminds me of Pennywise quite a bit.

B..b...b..b..b.buy a b..b..b...b.b.burger Buh..buh.bu.b..b.Billy Boy

plastic membrane

Originally posted by tHE vAGGABOND
read the book "fast foot nation" and never eat it again

My bruvver read, and is consequently thinking of becoming a vegetarian.

McGinty

Nice Point, Thanx 4 The Fish

"Has anybody read/seen IT ?
Ronald Mc reminds me of Pennywise quite a bit.

B..b...b..b..b.buy a b..b..b...b.b.burger Buh..buh.bu.b..b.Billy Boy"

I Hate, Hate, Hate, McDonalds. Their food is evil, they have evil business ethics, all cloaked in candy sugared smile, whilst they poison our food chain, diet and minds of children. If they had their way, the entire world would live on a McDonalds for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I hate eating in McDonalds, all my friends think I am nuts and a freak but there you go. I won't eat in them.

RampagingBadger

Firstly I'd like to say that I avoid McDonalds whenever possible. Not because of some ethical problem I have with the company but because I simply don't like the food and find it only leaves you feeling full for only half an hour.

However I don't think McDonalds is this evil corperation set on world domination that some of my friends believe it is. It's a burger resteraunt. No chipper I know sells healthy food. It advertises to kids because they're its main client. This doesn't make it evil, it makes them good at marcketing (spelt wrong i think). Big business will always do everything in its power to make a profit. If you dislike the business practises of a business blame the government for not regulating against such practises not the business for employing them.

nesf

Tbh I like a burger and chips occasionally, esp. after a few drinks, and I prefer not to eat in mac donnalls or any major chipper simply because the food is usually ****. On the other hand places like "Lennox's" or "KC's" in Cork are long established family buisness' and the food there is usually excellent. And can actually fill you up versus the mac donnells, fill ya for an hour job.


Then again, theres a very good argument for not eating this kind of food at all.

JarJar blinks

Big fat Big Mac & Buger King Arses

DadaKopf

And what about McCafé that opened up last Monday? Wonder how much 'beef' they're putting in the latté...

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by nesf
On the other hand places like "Lennox's" or "KC's" in Cork are long established family buisness' and the food there is usually excellent.

KC? Oh yes, food you get there is so damn tasty, i've heard some dodgy stuff about Lennox's though

amp

/me is starting to wonder why I haven't moved this to Food/drink already.

What's the big issue here? Is Fast Food destroying culture? Or is it necessary given that we have increasingly less time?

nesf

Well one could take the prominance of fast food chains as a reflection on the society that nurtured them. What is it about the societies of the world that sustains these purveyours of food of dubious quality and origin in a world full of skeptisism and irrational fear over the types of food we eat. (GM modified foods for instance, or meat from animals that might have eaten GM food, all cause stirring headlines in the press. While the common knowledge of the poor quality of food at MacDonnells etc, rarely raises a whisper.)

daveirl

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Raskolnikov

What i don't understand is that farmers are being told to cut down on meat production but yet fast food joints are still serving what could best be described as entrails. It's not like there is a huge shortage of meat or anything? I am getting that Fast Food Nation book soon so maybe i'll be a little better informed

Gerry

I also avoid mcdonalds ( and burger king ) whenever possible. I don't think theres anything wrong with your ordinary chipper though, its a bit fatty, but much healthier than mcdonalds, and far better tasting. I don't eat much burgers though, they are quite dodgy in a lot of chippers.

Greenbean

Most chippers buy the exact same burgers as mc donalds since they are cheap and in huge distribution. Near enough the same as the packs 40 burgers you can get in the supermarket etc.

Rabies

a group of people in america (of course) are suing 4 major fast food chains because they tricked them in to eating unhealthy food.

the article is on sky news

people will try anything these days for a few bob.

fast food chains should not be held responsible for these people being over weight.

banquo

The original Ronald McDonald quit and became a vegetarian.
True story.

Borzoi

I've read Fast Food Nation, good book, one of the things the author points out repeatedly is how different the US and European standards are.

The company I work for does supply a lot of equipment to abbatoirs and meat processing plants. So I regularly find myself wandering around them, trying to avoid getting whacked by carcasees, or machinery. All the places I have been have been scrupuously clean.

BTW I've also seen a side of beef - that's half a dead cow - skinned and all, with muscels still movin 15min after death. Steak lunch that day

However my main point is how the Anti McDonalds movement makes me laugh. If you don't like it don't eat it. It you think it's nutriously dubious, don't eat it. If you think they have dubious business ethics, step back for half a second, just half, and compare them to a cigarette/cigar (my own pref) manufacturer. Who would you be better off protesting against? Answers on the back of a fiver please.