Something to make you think twice about eating McDonalds!

MsLisaB

American artist Sally Davies photographed a McDonald's Happy Meal every day for about six months. Scarily, there doesn't seem to be much difference between Day 1 and Day 180. It makes you wonder just what is in it to stop it going mouldy and decomposing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sallydavies/sets/72157624739645253/

elsa11170

I haven't eaten at McDonalds since I saw the 2004 documentary Super Size me. They did the same thing with the french fries. Yuck!

achbarrow

Wow! Both Fascinating and SCARY AS HECK!

calabrdm

Crazy... we already do not eat there. But... just makes me justify our healthy eating even more.

jrich1

What are you expecting to happen? Also how was this stored, was it left out in the open or was it in a covered container?

Just seems like a smear campaign against mcdonalds

tater8589

Did you also know the beef is "dog food quality" . However I am guilty of eating chicken there maybe 4x a year.

abyt42

Sadly, now I want french fries....damn.

iamdesiderata

My friend compared the decomposition of a homemade burger and a McDonald's burger. Saaammmeee thing.

frenchfri87

if you think thats bad, this lady has a mcdonalds burger thats been around for 4 years!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGtDPG4UfI&feature=channel

Scorpiomom222

I posted this today and got ambushed. Tread carefully.

CombatVet_Armywife

I posted this today and got ambushed. Tread carefully.

Sadly...very true, she did. Makes people like me not want to post to the forum. I don't so much anymore. This is supposed to be a helpful, SUPPORTIVE, and motivational place to be....I read posts or responses from a lot of people not living up to that. Disappointing.

jimmydeanbakker

When eating fast food like McDonald's food, a person seeking to lose weight, live healthy, and look good are probably not on the path to meet their weight loss goals; however, a person with a little knowledge about serving sizes may feast on a hamburger every now and again, and never have a problem fitting in that size one dress. I've seen skinny people purchase some McNuggets, eat four, and throw the rest in the trash. That's some serious self control; but we have to be honest with ourselves, most of us don't have that kind of willpower. If I buy a box of ten McNuggets, I'm gonna eat ten McNuggets. If I buy a biggie fry, I'm gonna eat the whole thing. Now, without doing any exercises, my calorie intake to meet my weight loss goals is 1330 calories, a small amount of food overall for a man. If I decided to eat a ten piece thing of McNuggets, large French Fries, and a large soda, my calorie intake for that one meal is nearly my daily allowance. What happens to the rest of my day? By the time my head hits the pillow, I will have taken in nearly twenty-five hundred calories. With that said, why would anybody seeking to improve one's health through diet and exercise succumb to the will of a Big Mac?

binary_jester

I console myself knowing I am saving my family tons of money on embalming.

pink_and_shiny

I posted this today and got ambushed. Tread carefully.

Sadly...very true, she did. Makes people like me not want to post to the forum. I don't so much anymore. This is supposed to be a helpful, SUPPORTIVE, and motivational place to be....I read posts or responses from a lot of people not living up to that. Disappointing.

I've got a great group of guys and gals who are nothing but supportive. We have goals of losses by holidays...would love to have you join if you want a FRIENDLY environment. Just do a search for H20.

Scorpiomom222

I posted this today and got ambushed. Tread carefully.

Sadly...very true, she did. Makes people like me not want to post to the forum. I don't so much anymore. This is supposed to be a helpful, SUPPORTIVE, and motivational place to be....I read posts or responses from a lot of people not living up to that. Disappointing.

I've got a great group of guys and gals who are nothing but supportive. We have goals of losses by holidays...would love to have you join if you want a FRIENDLY environment. Just do a search for H20.

Of course! I'd love that!

nursevee

... and if I told my kids that their occassional trip to McD's was nixed because their "Happy Meal's last forever", I'd likely get some smart *kitten* comment from my 11 year old. As far as I'm concerned, all that matter sis how prepared I am when I step through the doors of those golden arches. Every street corner in the U.S has a fast food restaurant (when I moved here from Oz I can honestly say I was blown away) and I think it'll be a cold day in hell before I see them shutting their doors and crying poor. LOL. I am glad that most restaurants have some reasonable options (if you're sensible) for those of us that need them. Realism to me means accepting that sometimes you need to be able to pull in somewhere to grab n' go... I just try and choose the healthier options.

Mickie17

I haven't eaten at McDonalds since I saw the 2004 documentary Super Size me. They did the same thing with the french fries. Yuck!

Me neither! And now my boss is expecting our staff to work there as a fundraiser...but I am so completely, morally against it! Definitely a rock & hard place situation.

Scorpiomom222

Being real about what you are eating is practical. It doesn't mean you absolutely should not eat there. A person needs their cals, even on the go. But some of this stuff is almost like shock therapy. Like saying this is where I came from and I don't ever want to go back. It's the reality of what they were putting in their bodies, like when you look at the cals of bad foods. When I was shown all the crap in cigarettes, I didn't see it as "bashing" or nixing it from my life, but being real about what I was subjecting my body to.

MsLisaB

What are you expecting to happen? Also how was this stored, was it left out in the open or was it in a covered container?

Just seems like a smear campaign against mcdonalds

In the open, in her living room.

MsLisaB

I posted this today and got ambushed. Tread carefully.

I must have missed that one :blushing: That's what I get for living on the other side of the world :laugh:

lalouli

Well we don't eat many happy meals these days, but I am guilty of drinking a sugar-free ice-coffee 3 or 4 days a week. No idea what chemicals or preservatives might be in that, but it keeps me going around 3 o'clock when I'm ready to keel over. I let my kids eat a chocolate chip cookie, too, when they finish their homework without whining (just 'cause we're there getting mommy's ice coffee). Don't tell me what's in those. Sigh . . .

TiffanyLaPlante

I'm not saying that this probably didn't happen, but then again, there is no recordable proof of her "experiment" and no one really knows how the food was tampered with. No one was standing over her shoulder 24/7 and it wasn't in a laboratory environment. You be the judge on what you eat and not because someone stated it's the truth. Hopefully we are all smarter than that.

thevetchling

I find their toilets clean, but eating there? I am older than eight. It may entrap youngsters, but I'm a grown up!

Beebee78

Did you know - in the UK McDonalds get their beef from a company called 100% beef - so they can say it is 100% beef in their burgers, but it doesn't mean what you think it does!!!

brittlynne3579

ABC News.com just posted an article I think last week (I'm at work and can't post the link) and it was explaining what goes into chicken nuggest (not just at McDs but almost all fast food aside from Hardees and Chick Fil A). It was SO GROSS!!! The main ingredient is mechanically separated chicken parts. That's right, once all the goodness is stripped, what's left goes into a high powered sive and is 'fluffed' for volume. What you get is something that kind of looks like strawberry softserve.

THEN, the mix with ammonia because it's full of bacteria. THEN they bleach it to make it the white-ish color it is. THEN they add the artificial flavors. <Shudder>

I think McDonalds had some chicken like the Select strips that weren't like this, but the original nuggets there, Wendys, Burger King and Jack in the Box all were clients to this chicken manufacturer.

To those who say 'Tread Carefully'....*kitten* that...these are FACTS that people need to be aware of.

dore0021

Just sucks that she kept 'moving' the food in her pictures. People are trying to discredit her. I don't know what to believe....

andybaxta

I am an obese person who has eaten their share of McDonalds and twelve years ago I worked for them in a franchise as a Shift-Running floor manager. My experience (having worked in 10-12 different stores across the UK), was that McDonald's is one of the cleanest and safest food preperation environments I have ever encountered, their procedures and standards are second to none.

During my time I also visited both McKey foods (McDonald's owned distribution company for beef in the UK) and Golden West (Who McDonald's own and provide other food products, principally bread). The beef that at that stage went into all McDonalds beef was 100% beef, removed from the forequarter and flank of approved cattle bread in the UK and the factory was as clean as the stores, the beef arrived in large frozen squares as whole cuts that looked incredibly fresh, it was then ground into mince and pressed directly into the quarter or regular meet. Procedures in the factory were immensley good as well, they demonstrated by dropping a single iron filling onto a piece of meet and the belts that transport the meets to boxes ditched five rows in front of and five rows behind the single burger that had the iron filling on - they know their business.

Don't get me wrong, I think McDonalds is ONE of the reasons we (and especially the US) have issues with obesity, it does encourage children in and get the brand ingrained into their minds, but then parents have a choice - you should be controlling how and when your children are exposed to the food. Many of us are here, like me, because we have a lack of self control or have never been taught calorie content of foods, now we are informed consumers of McDonalds products we can make a choice of what and how often to eat there, which for me would now be a single small burger or other sandwich once every few months!

There is a lot of rubbish written about McDonalds and as somebody who worked there a long time ago, but has no official links or ties with their business, I think it is right a balanced argument is presented and not a scaremongering one based on heresay and rubbish.

dj_stevie_c

The only time in the past 5 months I've eaten at McDonalds was Sunday morning at 5am after working for 16 hours without a break and no food at all. Only place open, I drove past and grabbed a chicken sandwich and fries. Aw how bad of me... right?

Did you know Sausages are pretty much made the same way as Nuggets?
Did you know most Nuggets are made the same way as McDonalds? Also same thing with most burgers too...
If I'm going to eat my eyes/noses/bones/gristle then I'd rather do it in that form than the alternative.... It's a way of using the whole animal, which I actually approve of....
And as someone else said above, a home made hamburger will decompose the same as a McDonalds hamburger.

I don't need scare stories to stay away from McDonalds, it's 'treat' or 'emergency' food not food you should be eating when trying to lose weight unless there is no other option (and even then you need to control it).

If you need an excuse not to eat there every day then you're not ready to lose weight. Sorry. That's just how I feel.

jrich1

ABC News.com just posted an article I think last week (I'm at work and can't post the link) and it was explaining what goes into chicken nuggest (not just at McDs but almost all fast food aside from Hardees and Chick Fil A). It was SO GROSS!!! The main ingredient is mechanically separated chicken parts. That's right, once all the goodness is stripped, what's left goes into a high powered sive and is 'fluffed' for volume. What you get is something that kind of looks like strawberry softserve.

THEN, the mix with ammonia because it's full of bacteria. THEN they bleach it to make it the white-ish color it is. THEN they add the artificial flavors. <Shudder>

I think McDonalds had some chicken like the Select strips that weren't like this, but the original nuggets there, Wendys, Burger King and Jack in the Box all were clients to this chicken manufacturer.

To those who say 'Tread Carefully'....*kitten* that...these are FACTS that people need to be aware of.

BTW the "facts" from abcnews you refer to have been proven an internet hoax.. dont believe everything you see and read online

Grokette

American artist Sally Davies photographed a McDonald's Happy Meal every day for about six months. Scarily, there doesn't seem to be much difference between Day 1 and Day 180. It makes you wonder just what is in it to stop it going mouldy and decomposing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sallydavies/sets/72157624739645253/

Mc Donalds food is no different than the food that is sitting in the freezers at your local grocers................All the chemicals in the frozen, processed food makes it where it literally doesn't mold and such.

Grokette

American artist Sally Davies photographed a McDonald's Happy Meal every day for about six months. Scarily, there doesn't seem to be much difference between Day 1 and Day 180. It makes you wonder just what is in it to stop it going mouldy and decomposing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sallydavies/sets/72157624739645253/

Mc Donalds food is no different than the food that is sitting in the freezers at your local grocers................All the chemicals in the frozen, processed food makes it where it literally doesn't mold and such.