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It's always entertaining when the mainstream media "discovers"
something they think is new even though the natural health community has been
talking about for years. The New York Times, for example, recently ran a story
entitled When Drugs Cause Problems They Are Supposed to Prevent (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/h...). We've been
covering the same topic for years, reporting on how chemotherapy causes cancer,
osteoporosis drugs cause bone fractures and antidepressant drugs cause suicidal behavior.
The latest "new" discovery by the mainstream media is
that McDonald's Happy Meal hamburgers
and fries won't decompose, even if you leave them out for six months. This
story has been picked up by CNN,
the Washington Post and many other MSM outlets which appear startled that junk
food from fast food
chains won't decompose.
The funny thing about this is that the natural health
industry already covered this topic years ago.
Remember Len Foley's Bionic Burger video? It was posted in 2007
and eventually racked up a whopping 2 million views on YouTube
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyD...).
And this video shows a guy who bought his McDonald's hamburgers in
1989 -- burgers that still haven't decomposed in over two decades!
Now, he has an entire museum of non-decomposed burgers in his basement.
Did the mainstream media pick up on this story? Nope. Not a word. The story was
completely ignored. It was only in 2010 when an artist posted a story about a
non-decomposing McDonald's hamburger
from six months ago that the news networks ran with the story.
Check out the video link above and you'll see an entire
This is especially interesting because the more recent "Happy Meal
Project" which only tracks a burger for six months has drawn quite a lot
of criticism from a few critics who say the burgers will decompose if you give
them enough time. They obviously don't know about the mummified burger museum
going all the way back to 1989. This stuff never seems to decompose!
So why don't fast food burgers and fries
decompose in the first place? The knee-jerk answer is often thought to be,
"Well they must be made with so many chemicals that even mold
won't eat them." While that's part of the answer, it's not the whole
story.
The truth is many processed foods
don't decompose and won't be eaten by molds, insects or even rodents. Try
leaving a tub of margarine
outside in your yard and see if anything bothers to eat it. You'll find that
the margarine stays seems immortal, too!
Potato chips can last for decades. Frozen pizzas are remarkably resistant to
decomposition. And you know those processed Christmas sausages and meats sold
around the holiday season? You can keep them for years and they'll never rot.
With meats, the primary reason why they don't decompose is their high sodium content. Salt is a
great preservative, as early humans have known for thousands of years.
McDonald's meat patties are
absolutely loaded with sodium -- so much so that they qualify as
"preserved" meat, not even counting the chemicals you might find in
the meat.
To me, there's not much mystery about the meat not decomposing. The real
question in my mind is why don't the buns mold? That's the really scary
part, since healthy bread begins to mold within days. What could possibly be in
McDonald's hamburger buns that would ward off microscopic life for more than
two decades?
As it turns out, unless you're a chemist you probably can't even read the
ingredients list out loud. Here's what McDonald's own website says you'll find
in their buns:
Enriched flour (bleached wheat
flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate,
riboflavin, folic acid, enzymes),
water, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, yeast, soybean oil and/or
partially hydrogenated soybean oil,
contains 2% or less of the following: salt, calcium sulfate, calcium
carbonate, wheat gluten, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, dough
conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate,
datem, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide,
mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated
monoglycerides, monocalcium
phosphate, enzymes, guar gum, calcium peroxide, soy flour), calcium propionate
and sodium propionate (preservatives), soy lecithin.
Great stuff, huh? You gotta especially love the HFCS
(diabetes, anyone?),
partially-hydrogenated soybean oil (anybody want heart disease?) and
the long list of chemicals such as ammonium sulfate and sodium proprionate. Yum. I'm drooling
just thinking about it.
Now here's the truly shocking part about all this: In my estimation, the reason
nothing will eat a McDonald's hamburger bun (except a human) is because it's
not food!
No normal animal will perceive a McDonald's hamburger bun as food,
and as it turns out, neither will bacteria or fungi. To their senses, it's just
not edible stuff. That's why these bionic burger buns just won't decompose.
Which brings me to my final point about this whole laughable distraction: There
is only one species on planet Earth that's stupid enough to think a McDonald's
hamburger is food. This species is suffering from skyrocketing rates of
diabetes, cancer, heart disease,
dementia and obesity. This species claims to be the most intelligent species on
the planet, and yet it behaves in such a moronic way that it feeds its own
children poisonous chemicals and such atrocious non-foods that even fungi won't
eat it (and fungi will eat cow manure, just FYI).
Care to guess which species I'm talking about?
That's the real story here. It's not that McDonald's hamburgers won't
decompose; it's that people are stupid enough to eat them. But you won't
find CNN reporting that story any time soon.
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