• McDonalds Happy Meal resists decomposition for 6 months
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[release]Vladimir Lenin, King Tut and the McDonald's Happy Meal: What do they all have in common? A shocking resistance to Mother Nature's cycle of decomposition and biodegradability, apparently. That's the disturbing point brought home by the latest project of New York City-based artist and photographer Sally Davies, who bought a McDonald's Happy Meal back in April and left it out in her kitchen to see how well it would hold up over time. The results? "The only change that I can see is that it has become hard as a rock," Davies told the U.K. Daily Mail. She proceeded to photograph the Happy Meal each week and posted the pictures to Flickr to record the results of her experiment. Now, just over six months later, the Happy Meal has yet to even grow mold. She told the Daily Mail that "the food is plastic to the touch and has an acrylic sheen to it."[/release] Source: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101012/bs_yblog_upshot/mcdonalds-happy-meal-resists-decomposition-for-six-months[/url] Oh, and here's a link to the picture: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/sallydavies/5059592657/sizes/m/in/set-72157624739645253/[/url] I'm glad I don't eat out that often. :barf:
Honestly, these kinds of stories never stop me from eating fast food.
No surprise. I've known that the preservatives in McDonald's food keeps it intact for a while now, the only thing that dissipates is the lettuce.
It's still fucking delicious
Oh well, good thing my digestive system makes shit out of it.
Super Size Me, 2004
Nobody cares for health, I want my cheeseburger.
It's still tasty food. If her purpose was throwing me off their food, she's failed miserably.
[QUOTE=koekje4life V2;25363857]Nobody cares for health, I want my cheeseburger.[/QUOTE] Have fun.
[QUOTE=koekje4life V2;25363857]Nobody cares for health, I want my cheeseburger.[/QUOTE] That's kind of ignorant considering how much of a problem Obesity is becoming-- and will become in the future.
[QUOTE=MovingSalad;25363873]That's kind of ignorant considering how much of a problem Obesity is becoming-- and will become in the future.[/QUOTE] It's not entirely difficult to eat a balanced diet and exercise daily. Just have fast food occasionally and you won't get obese.
I eat at McDonald's rarely but when I do I enjoy my cheeseburger.
Last weekend I ate 7 cheeseburgers...I felt really strange after that.
There's nothing wrong with it in moderation. I only have fast food once every few months.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;25364037]There's nothing wrong with it in moderation. I only have fast food once every few months.[/QUOTE] I have two big macs every day, and I'm the skinniest guy at fat camp.
This is more good than bad. The meat is far less likely to go to waste. It gets challenged because there is some ridiculous belief that unnatural things are bad.
It doesn't decompose if it dries enough. It could probably stay like that for another 6 months. It's not anything special.
[QUOTE=Pepin;25364134]This is more good than bad. The meat is far less likely to go to waste. It gets challenged because there is some ridiculous belief that unnatural things are bad.[/QUOTE] And preservatives have always been known to be great for the human body. Many of them stay inside your body, captivated inside bone, skin and fat tissue-- to lay dormant until the day you die of heart failure. If you take ten products that stay preserved after 6 months, and you compare it to that of products that decompose after a little less than a month you will see a particular trend. The highly preserved food is not nearly as good for you as the food that isn't. Preservatives aren't good for the human body. Period.
[QUOTE=MovingSalad;25364172]And preservatives have always been known to be great for the human body. Many of them stay inside your body, captivated inside bone, skin and fat tissue.[/QUOTE] boo hoo hasn't killed me yet, it's not poison.
[QUOTE=Mr.Dounut;25364222] hasn't killed me yet, it's not poison.[/QUOTE] Just like smoking a pack a day hasn't killed me yet, or those syringes of heroin I inject into my bloodstream hasn't got the best of me yet. That's such shit logic, it's so childish. I'm not crying about it, i'm just saying that there's a lot of shit inside food that doesn't need to be there.
[QUOTE=MovingSalad;25364172]And preservatives have always been known to be great for the human body.[B] Many of them stay inside your body, captivated inside bone, skin and fat tissue-- to lay dormant until the day you die of heart failure.[/B] If you take ten products that stay preserved after 6 months, and you compare it to that of products that decompose after a little less than a month you will see a particular trend. The highly preserved food is not nearly as good for you as the food that isn't. Preservatives aren't good for the human body. Period.[/QUOTE] Wow do you have a source for, you know, any of this?
[QUOTE=MovingSalad;25364172]Many of them stay inside your body, captivated inside bone, skin and fat tissue-- to lay dormant until the day you die of heart failure.[/QUOTE] Do you have a source for this?
One of the health teachers at my school keeps a bag of mcdonalds fries that he's had for like 7 years and it looks new.
[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;25365999]Wow do you have a source for, you know, any of this?[/QUOTE] nope.avi
I work in McDonalds, I can confirm that none of it apart from the lettuce is actual food. It's inflated cardboard with added flavouring and colouring.
These kinda studies or whatever are dumb, I mean...so what if it keeps around and gets disgusting and what-not in air? In our stomachs it get digested and shit out in like, a day+
I don't eat fast food but maybe once a month.
"We are infinite. Millions of years after your civilization has been eradicated and forgotten, we will endure."
Inb4: Look at what this food is doing to your body! If it doesn't break down in this test, then it must never break down in your body! There are very strong acids in your stomach which will cause you to digest and excrete nearly everything you eat. Unless the testers submerged the burgers in a simulative amount of stomach fluids, they have not simulated the human body's reaction to the burgers. I'm not implying that McDonalds hamburgers are remotely healthy, but preservatives aren't the cause of this.
Keep anything in a dry sealed container and it will do the exact same. Mcdonalds is shitty for you but this is just disingenuous.
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