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Subway seeking $210M against CBC after 'factually incorrect' chicken report

13 points by cpncrunch 10y ago

ethagknight 10y ago
“Our recipe calls for 1% or less of soy protein in our chicken products,” Subway told CBC. So the 'recipe' for chicken does include soy? And just a wee bit, at that? Why is it so common for these restaurants to sell soy as chicken? Why doesn't the Poultry Lobby cut that out? I'm sure there are good reasons, I just find it bizarre.
- cpncrunch 10y ago
  See the ars link posted elsewhere in these comments for the reason.
phaed 10y ago
> Subway's results were such an outlier that the team decided to test them again, biopsying five new oven roasted chicken pieces, and five new orders of chicken strips. Those results were averaged: the oven roasted chicken scored 53.6 per cent chicken DNA, and the chicken strips were found to have just 42.8 per cent chicken DNA. The majority of the remaining DNA? Soy. Sorry Subway, the tests proved empirically that something was amiss, regardless what your recipe "called for". I see this lawsuit as nothing more than an attempt at damage control. Thought no one would notice you were short changing Canadians, eh?
- Hydraulix989 10y ago
  I haven't seen the methodology. Nor am I sure how well things like PCR work with denatured (cooked) nucleotides. And the test came out of some university nobody's heard of. If anyone has a link to the report, feel free to share. I struggled finding anything useful on Google.
  - shakna 10y ago
    The skepticism seems well-founded: [0] Though: > However, the CBC has not released the methods and calculations it used to analyze the raw DNA data It's a totally odd approach, and isn't backed by other testing. [0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/food-scientists-weigh-in-on-50-subway-chicken-test-its-100-weird/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/food-scientists-weig...
    - Hydraulix989 10y ago
      From what I've heard, I'm questioning the scientific validity of their results.

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Subway seeking $210M against CBC after 'factually incorrect' chicken report

13 points by cpncrunch 10y ago

ethagknight 10y ago
“Our recipe calls for 1% or less of soy protein in our chicken products,” Subway told CBC. So the 'recipe' for chicken does include soy? And just a wee bit, at that? Why is it so common for these restaurants to sell soy as chicken? Why doesn't the Poultry Lobby cut that out? I'm sure there are good reasons, I just find it bizarre.
- cpncrunch 10y ago
  See the ars link posted elsewhere in these comments for the reason.
phaed 10y ago
> Subway's results were such an outlier that the team decided to test them again, biopsying five new oven roasted chicken pieces, and five new orders of chicken strips. Those results were averaged: the oven roasted chicken scored 53.6 per cent chicken DNA, and the chicken strips were found to have just 42.8 per cent chicken DNA. The majority of the remaining DNA? Soy. Sorry Subway, the tests proved empirically that something was amiss, regardless what your recipe "called for". I see this lawsuit as nothing more than an attempt at damage control. Thought no one would notice you were short changing Canadians, eh?
- Hydraulix989 10y ago
  I haven't seen the methodology. Nor am I sure how well things like PCR work with denatured (cooked) nucleotides. And the test came out of some university nobody's heard of. If anyone has a link to the report, feel free to share. I struggled finding anything useful on Google.
  - shakna 10y ago
    The skepticism seems well-founded: [0] Though: > However, the CBC has not released the methods and calculations it used to analyze the raw DNA data It's a totally odd approach, and isn't backed by other testing. [0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/food-scientists-weigh-in-on-50-subway-chicken-test-its-100-weird/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/food-scientists-weig...
    - Hydraulix989 10y ago
      From what I've heard, I'm questioning the scientific validity of their results.