Why McDonald's Happy Meal Hamburgers Won't Decompose

The real story behind the story... ~ Mike Adams - Video
It's always entertaining when the mainstream media "discovers" something they think is new even though the natural health community has been talking about for years.
The New York Times, for example, recently ran a story entitled When Drugs Cause Problems They Are Supposed to Prevent (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/h...).
We've been covering the same topic for years, reporting on how
chemotherapy causes cancer, osteoporosis drugs cause bone fractures and
antidepressant drugs cause suicidal behavior.
The latest "new"
discovery by the mainstream media is that McDonald's Happy Meal
hamburgers and fries won't decompose, even if you leave them out for six
months. This story has been picked up by CNN, the Washington Post and
many other MSM outlets which appear startled that junk food from fast
food chains won't decompose.
The funny thing about this is that the natural health industry already covered this topic years ago. Remember Len Foley's Bionic Burger video? It was posted in 2007 and eventually racked up a whopping 2 million views on YouTube.
This video shows a guy who bought his McDonald's hamburgers in 1989 -- burgers that still haven't decomposed in over two decades!
Now, he has an entire museum of non-decomposed burgers in his basement.
Did
the mainstream media pick up on this story? Nope. Not a word. The story
was completely ignored. It was only in 2010 when an artist posted a
story about a non-decomposing McDonald's hamburger from six months ago
that the news networks ran with the story.
Check out the video
link above and you'll see an entire museum of Big Macs and hamburgers
spanning the years -- none of which have decomposed.
This is
especially interesting because the more recent "Happy Meal Project"
which only tracks a burger for six months has drawn quite a lot of
criticism from a few critics who say the burgers will decompose if you
give them enough time. They obviously don't know about the mummified
burger museum going all the way back to 1989. This stuff never seems to decompose!
Why don't McDonald's hamburgers decompose?
So
why don't fast food burgers and fries decompose in the first place? The
knee-jerk answer is often thought to be, "Well they must be made with
so many chemicals that even mold won't eat them." While that's part of
the answer, it's not the whole story.
The truth is many processed foods don't decompose
and won't be eaten by molds, insects or even rodents. Try leaving a tub
of margarine outside in your yard and see if anything bothers to eat
it. You'll find that the margarine stays seems immortal, too!
Potato
chips can last for decades. Frozen pizzas are remarkably resistant to
decomposition. And you know those processed Christmas sausages and meats
sold around the holiday season? You can keep them for years and they'll
never rot.
The primary reason meats don't decompose is their high sodium content.
Salt is a great preservative, as early humans have known for thousands
of years. McDonald's meat patties are absolutely loaded with sodium --
so much so that they qualify as "preserved" meat, not even counting the
chemicals you might find in the meat.
To me, there's not much mystery about the meat not decomposing. The real question in my mind is why don't the buns mold?
That's the really scary part, since healthy bread begins to mold within
days. What could possibly be in McDonald's hamburger buns that would
ward off microscopic life for more than two decades?
As it turns
out, unless you're a chemist you probably can't even read the
ingredients list out loud. Here's what McDonald's own website says
you'll find in their buns:
Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, enzymes), water, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, yeast, soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated soybean oil, contains 2% or less of the following: salt, calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, wheat gluten, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, dough conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate, datem, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated monoglycerides, monocalcium phosphate, enzymes, guar gum, calcium peroxide, soy flour), calcium propionate and sodium propionate (preservatives), soy lecithin.
Great
stuff, huh? You gotta especially love the HFCS (diabetes, anyone?),
partially-hydrogenated soybean oil (anybody want heart disease?) and the
long list of chemicals such as ammonium sulfate and sodium proprionate. Yum. I'm drooling just thinking about it.
Now
here's the truly shocking part about all this: In my estimation, the
reason nothing will eat a McDonald's hamburger bun (except a human) is
because it's not food!
No normal animal will perceive a
McDonald's hamburger bun as food, and as it turns out, neither will
bacteria or fungi. To their senses, it's just not edible stuff. That's
why these bionic burger buns just won't decompose.
Which brings me to my final point about this whole laughable distraction: There is only one species on planet Earth that's stupid enough to think a McDonald's hamburger is food.
This species is suffering from skyrocketing rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dementia and obesity.
This species claims to be the most
intelligent species on the planet, and yet it behaves in such a moronic
way that it feeds its own children poisonous chemicals and such
atrocious non-foods that even fungi won't eat it (and fungi will eat cow
manure, just FYI).
Care to guess which species I'm talking about?
That's the real story here. It's not that McDonald's hamburgers won't decompose; it's that people are stupid enough to eat them. But you won't find CNN reporting that story any time soon.
Mike Adams - October 17, 2010 - NaturalNews
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