Poll: "Ingredients in a Chicken McNugget" or "You Want me to Eat What Now?"
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Eh, I'm not sure if this is something that'll stick in my mind long enough to encourage me to say no the next time I'm sitting in their drive-through.
I've always known McDonald's is shit food, but in all honesty, sometimes I need a quick, convenient meal. :/
I've always known McDonald's is shit food, but in all honesty, sometimes I need a quick, convenient meal. :/
I'm not trying to start a fight here, but don't you think capitalism, an ever-evolving organism, might have figured out a variety of tactics for minimizing/marginalizing the effects of consumer choice?BrownGaijin said:
I think that's what bothers me most about standard issue defenses for capitalism. This isn't a steady, stable, consistent philosophy. It's a goal oriented organism, and that goal is profit/growth/money. Its practices will constantly and necessarily evolve to shuck controls and limitations.
That's why I always laugh when people seethe about the constant stream of government legislation designed to handcuff business. They see it as the man pushing his boot further and further down on the neck of business. In reality, business is a reckless, irresponsible child, always striving to be completely unbound by consequence or limitation. Government is always some years behind, closing loopholes and putting out fires. The friction between the two is the fault of capitalism's ever-present refusal to just chill the fuck out.
Facts are, if you ground up pigs eyes and covered em in breadcrumbs and flavourings, then marketed them as porky pieces or something, a lot of people would eat them, so long as you don't actually go 'its minced up eyes!'. I imagine 'reclaimed pork offal' would cover it.
Yet I'd hazard a guess it's not BAD for you, just we're grossed out by certain things like eyes and brains.
As for so many of the arguments here, I suggest everyone in the world reads 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre, or at least has a roam of his site, if nothing else he called out the screeching harpy, Gillian "I bought my Dr title at Walmart" McKeith, on her wild imagination and sheer fiction about food science.
Now Gillian McKeith was trying to stop fat people eating themselves to death, that's fine, but it destroys all the work if it turns out you've just made it all up.
I believe he was a big part of the 'homeopathic overdose' protest across the UK also, trying to get drugstores to stop selling homeopathic remedies (sorry, I mean small bottles of water), as cures to disorders and diseases, by having thousands of people buy a full pack and consume it in one go.
Essentially, he lives to call out just this kind of shit that gets printed in the press media and given airtime on shitty news shows, and I salute him.
When you read '14% of all child abuse happens on a Monday' stop for a moment...hold off on reacting and THINK. "14%? that's a one in seven chance, that somemthing would happen one day in a week, where's the news or science again?"
A bit off topic, but it pissed me off that some vitamins have to be listed as E number additives, to the point where some people are put off buying things with extra vitamins and minerals in, as they're listed as 'additives' and duh, additives are always bad aren't they?
Yet I'd hazard a guess it's not BAD for you, just we're grossed out by certain things like eyes and brains.
As for so many of the arguments here, I suggest everyone in the world reads 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre, or at least has a roam of his site, if nothing else he called out the screeching harpy, Gillian "I bought my Dr title at Walmart" McKeith, on her wild imagination and sheer fiction about food science.
Now Gillian McKeith was trying to stop fat people eating themselves to death, that's fine, but it destroys all the work if it turns out you've just made it all up.
I believe he was a big part of the 'homeopathic overdose' protest across the UK also, trying to get drugstores to stop selling homeopathic remedies (sorry, I mean small bottles of water), as cures to disorders and diseases, by having thousands of people buy a full pack and consume it in one go.
Essentially, he lives to call out just this kind of shit that gets printed in the press media and given airtime on shitty news shows, and I salute him.
When you read '14% of all child abuse happens on a Monday' stop for a moment...hold off on reacting and THINK. "14%? that's a one in seven chance, that somemthing would happen one day in a week, where's the news or science again?"
A bit off topic, but it pissed me off that some vitamins have to be listed as E number additives, to the point where some people are put off buying things with extra vitamins and minerals in, as they're listed as 'additives' and duh, additives are always bad aren't they?
One last thing, I support vegans in all but one way.
You're not allowed vegan mince, sausages, burgers etc.
We don't sculpt cauliflowers out of sheep brains, even tho it's a very close match, we don't hole punch little circles out of chicken meat and dye them green to make fake peas, so if you want sausages, bacon, burgers and the like so bad, have one!
You're not allowed vegan mince, sausages, burgers etc.
We don't sculpt cauliflowers out of sheep brains, even tho it's a very close match, we don't hole punch little circles out of chicken meat and dye them green to make fake peas, so if you want sausages, bacon, burgers and the like so bad, have one!
I just want to say that aside from all the crap ingredients, there's also a huge problem with the amount of sodium and calories in this food. In high school I ate it for lunch almost every day and I can tell you, in the afternoons I felt like shit and often had diareaha. Stopped eating that garbage, problem solved. I didn't get fat from it because I had a high metabolism and played hockey, but I know it wasn't good for me. I could feel it. Nowadays, I rarely go to fast food burger places. If I need to buy lunch I'll go to Mr. Sub (usually). I also cook pretty good dinners at home, and overall I feel way better.
Anyway, I think fast food definitely needs to be regulated, I think all food sold (especially food prepared and cooked for you) needs to pass much stricter requirements for health reasons. Most grocery store stuff is ok (most, not all) but McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, A&W, fricking Denny's - they all need to make some changes for the good of society. Of course they only care about bottom dollar, so it'll have to require government intervention I fear. People don't care enough to "boycott" (look at all the fatties!)
Anyway, I think fast food definitely needs to be regulated, I think all food sold (especially food prepared and cooked for you) needs to pass much stricter requirements for health reasons. Most grocery store stuff is ok (most, not all) but McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, A&W, fricking Denny's - they all need to make some changes for the good of society. Of course they only care about bottom dollar, so it'll have to require government intervention I fear. People don't care enough to "boycott" (look at all the fatties!)
im not gonna read through the massive amount of pages...Kpt._Rob said:
but to give my opinion.
its delicious, fast, cheap.
thats what i want out of my food.
i have 2 jobs and college every single day so it works out perfectly, so giving my body something that it likes (but not good for it necessarily) isn't a big deal really. (btw im not fat at all, hell im 165 lbs at 5'9)
so until the day that i turn into a fat lard, im not going to care how "healthy" a food is, if its food, tastes damn good, and is decently cheap = im buying it alot.
Snipped a bit away from your post.Kpt._Rob said:
This really isn't about food at all, it's about convinience and convinience is NEVER worth it, it's the disease that is killing our species.
Having said that it isn't the fault of the people offering products up for sale but the fault of those who buy it.
If no one ever bought fastfood no one would sell it.
As many have no doubt already mentioned, the chickens the nuggets are made of were probably smarter than the person eating them...
Yes, let's all live past one hundred, where we're most likely in constant pain or illness, barely managing on medical care, and too senile to comprehend basic conversation.lacktheknack said:
ive long since accepted the fact that if i ever want to eat actual, healthy food ill have to kill it myself. since eating is kind of an important thing, the demand for ways to satisfy it inevitably outweighs a provider's ability to... provide it without a bajillion preservatives and synthetic ingredients. golden arches may take this to a whole new level, but i havent been mortally poisoned yet, and thats as good as i can expect from fast food.
It doesn't work that way. A certain culture in Japan, widely regarded to have the healthiest diet in the world, frequently lived to be well over a hundred, with very little mental decay. Unfortunately, now that they have total access to the outside world, parents (who only eat the original diet) are now expected to outlive their children.ninetails593 said:
You see, you ARE what you eat.
Haven't eaten chicken nuggets since I saw some undercoer filming of a worker shovelling the meat back on the production line after a machine failure spat it all on the floor. I was never a big fan of them anyway.
I agree with this. If it were really that acutely deadly, the FDA and other organizations like that would have stepped in by now. God knows there are like two dozen agencies investigating McDonalds and what they sell at all times, so if they concoct anything that is truly deadly, you can bet top-paying news organizations will be the first to hear about it. And then us. And then Facebook. And then Twitter. And then Saturn.SirBryghtside said:
