Friday, February 18, 2011

I just have to talk about this

Okay, so we are at McDonalds last night with some friends.......side note: we didn't go there for the food but the free wi-fi.  ~end side note.  Anyway, as we are leaving and heading to our cars, a vehicle pulled up into the drive thru and the voice box asked the vehicle, "Welcome to McDonalds, would you like to try our 50 piece chicken McNuggets?"  OH MY!!  REALLY?  That's just plain crazy!  Who needs a 50 piece nugget meal?  Do people not realize how bad this stuff is for you?
See Below Info from Wikipedia:


The 2004 documentary Super Size Me states "McDonald's Chicken McNuggets were originally made from old chickens no longer able to lay eggs. These chickens are stripped down to the bone, and then "ground up" into a chicken mash then combined with a variety of stabilizers and preservatives, pressed into familiar shapes, breaded and deep fried, freeze dried, and then shipped to a McDonald's near you." Super Size Me also alleged that they included chemicals such as tertiary butylhydroquinone (a phenolic antioxidant used as a chemical preservative), polydimethylsiloxane (an anti-foaming agent), and other ingredients not used by a typical home cook.[5] This was recently proven by CNN.[6]
As of October 9 2010, listed as ingredients in the cooking process of McNuggets are dimethylpolysiloxane which in a 2002 lawsuit against McDonald's, a judge commented that Chicken McNuggets are a "McFrankenstein" creation of various elements not used by the home cook.[7]and TERTIARY BUTYLHYDROQUINONE or TBHQ.[4] TBHQ, a chemical the FDA requires to not exceed 0.02 percent of its oil and fat content can cause death from the ingestion of as little as 5 grams. Ingestion of a single gram (a thirtieth of an ounce) has caused nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse. Industrial workers exposed to the vapors-without obvious systematic effects-suffered clouding of the eye lens. Application to the skin may cause allergic reactions[8]
American McNuggets (190 calories, 12 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated fat for 4 pieces) contain the chemical preservative tBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a petroleum-based product. They also contain dimethylpolysiloxane, “an anti-foaming agent” also used in Silly Putty.

REALLY?  Silly putty?  Hey, I don't know what all those big words up there are but I'm sure they can't be good for you!

Just sayin........

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