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The cheapest, most nutritious and most bountiful food in human history

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Jul 28, 2013.

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  1. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I don't even like seeing places like McDonald's being called "offenders." They're offering a product the public obviously wants. Shackle them and take away their special sauce.
     
    jr/shotglass, Jul 29, 2013
    #61
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I suppose anything you stick in your mouth and swallow can be food, when you are emotionally detached (really?) from reality.

    Including sodium citrate (the fourth ingredient in McDonalds' process white cheddar cheese), Azodicarbonamide (what goes into their buns), and a host of other things off their ingredient list that you consider "food," but most people on here couldn't tell me what it is.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 29, 2013
    #62
  3. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    The minutes I take off my life with a Double QP will be multiplied by worrying about Azodicarbonamide and what it is.
     
    jr/shotglass, Jul 29, 2013
    #63
  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Well, if you ever do find out what it is. ... you'll find out that it's other major use is in the production of plastic.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 29, 2013
    #64
  5. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    All the time I wasted eating the container. It was already in the burger.
     
    jr/shotglass, Jul 29, 2013
    #65
  6. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    And apple seeds contain cyanide There's some scary soundin stuff in natural foods too.
     
    Stoney, Jul 29, 2013
    #66
  7. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Black taco[/boom]
     
    dooley_womack1, Jul 29, 2013
    #67
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Folks are taking the definition of "nutrition" too far.

    The point is that calories are nutrition.

    Sure, poor people in America get plenty of calories. That's also the point.

    In a world where there are people starving to death, we in America can get 390 calories for a buck. That McDonald's (and others) have figured out how to source, cook, and serve a 390 calorie burger for a dollar is an incredible feat.

    Elites like to talk about natural food, farm to table, and their hatred of preservatives, and GMOs, but without them, world hunger would be much greater.

    Elites don't like Walmart, or McDonald's, but the poor depend on them.
     
    YankeeFan, Jul 29, 2013
    #68
  9. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Aren't we full of meaningless, ominous sounding facts.
     
    RickStain, Jul 29, 2013
    #69
  10. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    You shilling for McDonald's now?

    If you think McDonald's industrial food is even remotely nutritional, you're nuts.

    As Ragu said, they take a wonderful healthy food like oatmeal and turn it into a chemistry experiment.

    And this idea that people who promote healthy food are elites is right wing nonsense. It was the same gang of wingnuts who attacked the First Lady for promoting healthy food.

    I love McDonald's but go there no more than once a month because I know it's incredibly unhealthy
     
    JR, Jul 29, 2013
    #70
  11. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    A natural-growing apple -- the whole food variety that has cultivars going back millions of years -- does not consist of synthetic (man-made) chemicals. It's not a matter of "scary sounding." It's a matter of a PROCESSED product that is a man-made concoction and includes synthetic chemicals. ... versus whole foods that grow naturally, and were the staple of human diets for millions of years, prior to the last 100 + years in which we have fucked up our diets.

    I'll take my chances on an apple off an apple tree over a processed product (from McDonalds or anywhere else) any day of the week. I'd also bet if others made what I think is that common sense decision, we wouldn't have the variety of diet-related health problems that have reached epidemic proportions worldwide. It's a curious correlation at the least that people are fatter and more prone to things like heart problems and diabetes at the same time that McDonalds has grown to an entity that feeds about 1 percent of the world's population (68 million people a day).
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 29, 2013
    #71
  12. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    While you're there, can you pick me up three Taco Supremes, crispy shell, please. :)
     
    old_tony, Jul 29, 2013
    #72
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