Here is a link to an article about trans-fat that is a bit shocking. In the US one order of fries can load you up with 12 grams of trans fat and it has been shown 5 grams ups the chances of a heart attack by 25%. In Denmark, the partially hydrogenated oils used to cook fries have been outlawed and as a result, the amount of trans fat there from the same helping of fries is 0.33 gram. 330 MILLIgrams.
Whats wrong with this picture? It turns out partially hydrogenated oils have been injected with hydrogen which makes the stuff last longer and therefore, can you guess?, cheaper. Ordinary canola or soy oil or corn oil has no trans fat but McDonalds is too cheap to use them. In a press conferance on the stuff, they say 'we vow to reduce the trans fat by 50%' WOW I'm impressed, that brings it down all the way to 6 grams per serving or only 18 times that of Denmark. Way to go McDonalds.
Here is the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/04/12/fries.fat.ap/index.html
Originally posted by sonhouseA real healthproblem, there. Is this the reason that when you see a documentary of sorts, from the US there's always people in the background so big they can hardly make it from dot A to B?
Here is a link to an article about trans-fat that is a bit shocking...
Or is that just coincidence?
Originally posted by sonhouseSo eating one order of fries in the US increases your chances of a heart attack by 60%? Now that *would* be shocking...
Here is a link to an article about trans-fat that is a bit shocking. In the US one order of fries can load you up with 12 grams of trans fat and it has been shown 5 grams ups the chances of a heart attack by 25%. In Denmark, the partially hydrogenated oils used to cook fries have been outlawed and as a result, the amount of trans fat there from the same hel ...[text shortened]... o McDonalds.
Here is the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/04/12/fries.fat.ap/index.html
Originally posted by sonhouseIts a pretty vicious cycle. Corporations brainwash consumers into thinking that cheaper is always best: no more so than the states, where conspicuous consumerism is king. Then all businesses have to try to use the cheapest raw materials to compete as price is everything to customers.
Here is a link to an article about trans-fat that is a bit shocking. In the US one order of fries can load you up with 12 grams of trans fat and it has been shown 5 grams ups the chances of a heart attack by 25%. In Denmark, the partially hydrogenated oils used to cook fries have been outlawed and as a result, the amount of trans fat there from the same hel ...[text shortened]... o McDonalds.
Here is the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/04/12/fries.fat.ap/index.html
There are a couple of major drawbacks to this. 1) The negative health effects, 1 of which you have detailed. The negative effects of cheap "food" components is massive. We are effectively poisoning our bodies with cheaper-than-the-real-thing flavours, preservitives and additives. 2) On the wider horizon of the cheap is best combined with a consumer driven society is that people feel the need to buy poor-quality cheap products, which are unreliable in the extreme with very short lifespans. Therefore, due to the brainwashing that goes on that if you don't own the latest device, you are a lesser person, the consumer constantly has to purchase poor quality products, and the end result is that the earth's resources get used up faster and faster.
End of the day, the market drives the direction that companies take. While McDonalds have a market, they will continue to poison people with poor quality "food", much of which is contaminated with faeces from their dodgy meat plants, and loaded with addictive salt, and even more loaded with addictive sugar which hides the taste of the salt. Its up to the consumer to say enough is enough.
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3) the wellbeing of animals used for cheap meat and cheep dairy products is alarming. To produce cheap meat and dairy, animals are being kept in very poor conditions, drugged to increase grow and given poor quality food and leftovers (which eventually comes on the plate of meat eaters too) ranging from oil (yes, oil) to grinded bones. This is by far not an exeption. All to keep production as high and cheap as possible, but don't make you think it is aimed at the benefit of animals and consumers. Have a happy meal.
Originally posted by Aiko:'(
To produce cheap meat and dairy, animals are being kept in very poor conditions, drugged to increase grow and given poor quality food and leftovers (which eventually comes on the plate of meat eaters too) ranging from oil (yes, oil) to grinded bones. This is by far not an exeption.
Sad what we do to save that extra buck. Makes me so mad! ðŸ˜