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Next time you leave the bar for the night and don’t feel like cooking at 2 AM, think twice before you hit up your local McDonald’s 24 hr. drive-thru!
Now we all know McDonald’s isn’t health food. We know they are an evil corporation and there is no need to explain why. There is a constant barrage of commercials on TV and product placement in movies telling you, “Go eat McDonald’s. Go eat McDonald’s. Go drink a Coke. Blah blah blah.”
I was recently surprised, however, to find out how bad this “food” really is. It seems one of the McDonald’s-Fan favorites, the infamous McNuggets, may give you a little less than you bargained for! I loved them as a kid, I loathe them by investigation. I’m digressing.
McDonald’s McNuggets contain 38 ingredients! Now that’s not too big of a surprise…just go read the list of ingredients on that delicious can of Boyardee’s ravioli in your pantry. The shocking thing about these tasty McNuggets is what these additional ingredients are.
The chicken’s are first fed genetically modified corn-like food in a torturous environment. Once they’ve met their demise, the meat is pumped up with wonderful chemicals such as metals like sodium aluminum phosphate, as well as some yummy-sounding products like sodium acid pyrophosphate (read more on sodium phosphates here), mono-calcium phosphate, etc. These keep our beloved boot-shaped nuggets from becoming rotten (though they can sure end up making your stomach feel rotten an hour or so after consumption).
Next, dimethylpolysiloxene is added to the “meat” as an “anti foaming” agent. These keeps your nuggets from leeching something that may be described as what’s in your kleenex when you blow your nose in the morning. This chemical is a suspected carcinogen and has been shown to increase risks for sterilization (how shocking, right?).
The worst ingredient I’ve discovered, however is a brainy-sounding one. Tertiary butyl hydroquinone. I can’t even pronounce that. The acronym for this delicious additive is TBHQ. TBHQ is derived from petroleum. I wonder if McDonald’s is down at the BP spill right now syphoning the water!
TBHQ is a form of butane. Don’t light your cigarettes or joints too close to your munchy, crunchy McNuggets! (There has to be a bit of humor, here. This information is disgusting). TBHQ is sprayed directly on the nuggets and in their packaging as a preservative. The FDA wholly allows this product to be “used sparingly” on our oh so wholesome food. No more than .02% per nugget. One gram of this oil can cause unpleasant side effects such as vomiting, delirium, ringing in the ears, and other fun after-dinner activities! Five grams can easily be a fatal dose.
McDonald’s commercials shown on TV, especially during children’s programming, ALWAYS shows the kids eating these Chemical McNuggets. Slow kill eugenics at it’s best, if you ask me!
Here’s a better idea, friends. Buy some free-range chicken from a farmers market, throw it in the crock-pot with some potatoes and seasonings, and when you get your munchies for some chicken or you just feel too lazy to cook, eat real food!
You’re better off eating Play-Doh hamburgers than McDonald’s. Via: ithp
I’m hatin’ it.
