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McDonald’s Transparency Campaign Backfires. Prepare to Be Shocked

• ggchappell 12y ago
  > It would be fair to assume that there are three ingredients in McDonald’s French fries: potatoes, oil, and salt. Only if you'd been paying zero attention for the past two decades. The sugar coating is to get the nice golden brown color. We've known about that for a long time. The hydrogenation is there so things don't rot or otherwise degrade in distasteful ways. Most of the rest of the wacky ingredients are there to get that fried-in-beef-fat taste since they stopped using beef fat in their frying oil a decade or so ago. And everything's GMO nowadays. Regardless, does anyone with any sense actually entertain the idea that McDonald's products are healthy?? TL;DR: This isn't news.
  • chdir 12y ago
    > If you don’t have much time skip ahead to 3:10 .. This was the news part for me : the pesticide used is so toxic that the potato farmers won't venture out in the fields for up-to 5 days after spraying it