McDonald's...give me some compelling reasons to resist!

sites like:
http://www.meat.org/

and images like 'meet your meat' on you tube

it won't only stop you eating McDonalds though but will definately help.

I don't see the big deal about having their salads or other lighter choices, but for me I have a huge issue with the fattier offerings b/c I find it really addictive. I once went over a year without having one of their burgers and then I gave in to the craving one day and suddenly I wanted to eat them all the time. The whole 'smells gross, tastes gross' argument doesn't work if the person has previously really enjoyed it and hasn't decided it's gross themselves. Now I'm off the burgers and fries and if faced with having to eat there, I go for the salad with grilled chicken and the low-cal dressing. If I have extra calories to eat, I might get the real fruit smoothie. I don't feel bad about eating there if I am choosing the options I feel are not as bad for me as the other menu items. I can't justify eating most of their stuff b/c the large amount of calories for the small amount of food just won't work well with my super-hungry, wanting-to-lose-weight self. LOL

But now I really do like my homemade burgers better. :-)

all of the food is in oil! a lot of salt! just plan bad for you. and who really knows what is in their food! just make your self a hamburger and bake some fries at home. you would be better off and you will know what is in it.

EEEWWW....after reading all the posts that everyone posted about the food at McDonalds....I don't think I will ever want to eat there again!! LOL

Oh my god the misinformation and rumors in this thread! Why don't you just say McDonald's uses dead babies in their food and be done with it.

Disgusting and not worth it!
Super Size Me
Bloat, gas and calories
Horrible odor that lingers from frying of food "product"
very limited natural ingredients

Bottom line is that there are so many wonderful delicious foods, healthy and unhealthy, in the world...In my opinion McDonalds is just a waste of time, money, calories and effort.

the chicken is 70% corn syrup
most other stuff is fillered with wood pulp so the company dosnt hav to use actual ingredients
the milkshakes are mostly flour


BUT i stil love eatng the food once in a while lol its delishious

Don't eat there because McDonald's smells like a newborn babies diaper that has been cooking in a incubator/bili light for two hours. This CANNOT be a good thing.

the chicken is 70% corn syrup
most other stuff is fillered with wood pulp so the company dosnt hav to use actual ingredients
the milkshakes are mostly flour


BUT i stil love eatng the food once in a while lol its delishious

Ok that does it.

You sure about that? Where did you learn this? Got any links to support your statement?


The chicken is 70% corn syrup...you gotta be kidding me...

ok 70% might have been an exaduration but they are on average each nugget 57% corn products

There are 38 ingredients in the McDonalds "chicken" nuggets.

Of them: the chicken (which is fed genetically altered corn, then ground with bones), modified cornstarch (without this, the "chicken" nuggets would not be able to hold themselves together, due to the extreme processing of the nugget.), emulsifiers (so that the fats and the moisture in the nuggets do not separate, forming a nasty clot-like knuckle of nugget.), dextrose (sugar.), chicken flavoring (a source of moisture and some flavor that has been leeched out of the nugget by the processing of the product.).

Yellow corn starch and more modified cornstarch are added to make the batter.

i want a hamburger now..LoL..a fresh one of course

I haven't read all the responses...but the 'yuck bucket' At least the one I worked at had one, it's all the grease from the troughs that you use a squeegee to get off the griddle, no joke. it had bits of food in it from anything that stuck to the grill and we had to empty the troughs often and let it congeal in a bucket...hence the name yuck bucket. I haven't eaten there since the first day I worked there....

I haven't read all the responses...but the 'yuck bucket' At least the one I worked at had one, it's all the grease from the troughs that you use a squeegee to get off the griddle, no joke. it had bits of food in it from anything that stuck to the grill and we had to empty the troughs often and let it congeal in a bucket...hence the name yuck bucket. I haven't eaten there since the first day I worked there....

That's in every kitchen, of every restaurant, ever. What would you prefer them to do? Not clean the grills? Wave their magic wands so grease magically disappears? Are you saying that when you cook a burger in a frying pan at home, no grease comes out of that patty and into the pan?

I've spent the majority of my working life in restaurant kitchens, and there is no difference between cooking in a restaurant and cooking at home, it's just done on a much bigger scale in a restaurant.

no, I only use lean ground turkey I think it was the squeegee that turned me off and the amount of times I had to empty it. yeah, I'm sure it happens in all restaurants, but I haven't personally seen it, so somehow it makes it ok ;-P I don't eat fast food anyway, it's too expensive!

All these "health gurus" spitting out statistics with no real evidence to prove what they say. I'll say it again: eating healthy doesn't ensure health. Eating junk food won't necessarily make you unhealthy. People get unhealthy for these usual reasons: overweight or obese, lack of physical activities, bad lifestyle (high stress, emotional eating, lack of sleep, smoking), genetic predisposition.
There are many healthy people that eat junk food and don't have the issues that overweight people have. Olympic athletes eat McDonalds (for free of course) and I doubt anyone here, including myself, could claim we have the fitness or health levels they have.
If you have a hate relationship with Mcdonald's that fine, but don't spout off unfounded rumors and speculations you read and hear from edited documentaries.

Supersize me was a joke of a movie. If I fried everything I ate at home I would be in a world of hurt just like I would be if I ate McDonalds three times a day. Too much of any food can cause problems.

The guy in that movie was a complete moron. I can't believe how many people let their commonsense go out the window when they watched this junk. But then again, Micheal Moor can make millions of the very system he despises and people still go to his movies.

One of the guys at work brought McDonalds for lunch. I have room in my calories for the day to eat at McDonald's for dinner and be fine but i'm interested to see why YOU think I should resist. I know "oh there's so much sodium." blah blah blah blah but give me some serious compelling reasons (or just fun interesting ones.)

I'm not saying that eating fast food from time to time is evil, i'm just interested to see what you all have to say.

Knowing what I have eaten for the last week, i would tell myself, "Emily you hardly eat fast food so if you ocassionaly have it no biggy BUT while you were in CA you ate more than enough junk for the month so wait it out!" Not super interesting but definitely compelling.

Watch Food,Inc.

That helped make up my mind on a few places.