Feeling hungry? You may want to read the rest of this article before you head to your favorite fast food restaurant and order your usual chemical and prescription drug-ridden meal. Did you know you’re likely eating crushed beetles and or duck feathers with your fast food burger? Here are some of the most disgusting additives you’re eating when you hit the drive-thru:
Duck Feathers: One
of the more-enduring urban legends about McDonald’s is that their
hamburgers contain cow eyeballs. While this has not proven to be the
case, the company’s Baked Hot Apple Pie does contain duck feathers, or
at least an ingredient commonly derived from such. Truth can be just as
strange as fiction.
Pink Slime: McDonald’s wants you to believe that every
time you bite their McNuggets, you are eating chicken. But, that is far
from the truth because it is a mixture of bones and chicken carcass,
chicken parts that you won’t normally eat. Other ingredients included in
the mixture popularly known as pink slime includes ammonia to kill
bacteria and small amounts of petroleum.
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Silly Putty plastic:
Dimethylpolysiloxane is a form of silicone used in the stretchy toy, but
it also keeps fryer oil from foaming and as such, you’ll find it in
McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish and fries … or almost anything deep-fried in a
fast food restaurant.
Wood (cellulose). Processed wood pulp, known as
cellulose, is used in everything. Food processors use it to thicken and
stabilize foods, replace fat and boost fiber content
Petroleum-derived preservatives (TBHQ). Tertiary
butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) is made from compounds derived from petroleum
and finds a home in processed food. McDonald’s, for example, uses it in
18 products ranging from its Fruit and Walnut Salad to Griddle Cakes to
McNuggets.
Soil fertilizer (ammonium sulfate)
Ammonium sulfate is sold by chemical companies to food
manufacturers as “yeast food for bread,” and many fast-food companies
list the ingredient in their bakery products.
40 years ago, only around $6 billion was spent on fast food. Today
that number is more like $200 billion. Not only is the fast food
industry serving us disgusting food, they are making tons of money doing
it.
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