Junk Food Ban/Regulation

[Michael-5]

JoeTheBro said:

Michael-5 said:

LemonSlice said:

Michael-5 said:

JoeTheBro said:

Michael-5 said:

ebw said:

I won't deny that fast food is very unhealthy, but did you really believe McDonald's, the most closely scrutinized franchise in the world, who actually got sued for overheating coffee, ever would do something as stupid and legally actionable as selling 20% beef patties?

http://www.snopes.com/business/market/allbeef.asp

That's another problem with the USA, everyone suing each other, and excessive capitalism.

Another problem is people assuming myths are facts and using them to warrant regulations...

What myth?

The ridiculous McDonalds myth you posted as fact.

 

Yes, it can be cheaper to make a meal at home, but there's a McDonalds right next to my house and the food's pretty damn good.

As for McDonalds 20% beef, it's not a myth. Look into 100% Beef and watch "End of Suburbia." Heck, meat grading is based on the quality of the meat, fat/water content, and beef content. Grade F Beef I believe (I could be wrong on this) is any meat with 49% or less Beef.

Also I have a friend who's father is a butcher. When you salt beef it absorbs a lot of water. Most meats in North America are less then 90% meat because of this trick.

Did you not bother to check the link? Also I'll watch that video on youtube if I can find it.

I just read it now, and I don't agree. The Source is not a credible source, it's a newspaper article from 2007.

First of all, no beef is 100% beef (lots of water content), there used to be a meat supplier for McDonalds called "100% Beef" (Even mentions it in the article).

Maybe it changed, I beleive the "100% Beef" issue was older then 1997, and that article only says that McDonalds meat is made from 100% USDA inspected meat with no salt added. The article doesn't mention the Beef Grade. It could still be grade F (or 1 now on a scale of 1-5 on the USDA website) meat.

I hate when they say it's 100% beef because like I said, people salt meat to it absorbs water and adds weight. If you dry meat (like in Jerky) it's a lot lighter. I guess technically, since salt only ads like 0.1% to the mass and water is a natural ingrediant in meat the USDA ignores factors such as this, but it's still lying.

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As for End of Suburbia, it's a good film. A lot of facts are overexaggerated, but not untrue. It's mostly about global warming, and yes if global temperatures reach 2% temperature is beleived to rapidly climb, and at 6% most scientists believe we a f***ed. However things like we're going to run out of gas by 2020, is false (we have enough to 2030 now, but as technology improves, we keep pushing that figure future into the future, it was 1980 at one point).

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OH SH**. Sorry, watch Food inc. That's the movie which talks about where our food comes from. End of Suburbia is about the environment, and the end of cars (and hence sub-urbs)