Originally posted by: Nanotech
I told one of my co-workers about this deal and how it was suppose to be Nation wide but apparently one of our McDonald's here in Central Illinois decided not to participate b/c she got shot down.
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Originally posted by: NYSTrooper
Being a chef and attending the CIA there are a few things I would like to point out: 1) People who religiously preach organic food are usually the most ignorant about it. They have foreclosed on a dietary model that was sold to them. Organic farming is NOT natively better for the soil, the consumer, or a sustainable farming method. My favorite are the non-GMO food eaters...had a Papaya lately? 2) The food I fix and sell for $90 a plate is more unhealthy than eating at McDonalds, it just looks a lot nicer. 3) Fine dining restaurants use just as much poor quality product as fast food, except in fine dining instead of processing it you learn how to hide it behind a centerpiece or mask the off flavor. Ever wonder what happens to the 12 day old lobster that's starting to stink? Well you certainly don't notice the stink in the lemongrass lobster bisque.
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I guess that most people prefer to consume in ignorance. If you want to actually understand what it is that you are eating/supporting whenever you go to McDonalds, then I suggest that you pick up a copy of 'Fast Food Nation' at your local library or bookstore.
Enjoy.
Originally posted by: Johnbear007
Originally posted by: myusername
Originally posted by: YoYoBabyYo
is anyone else afraid to eat beef because of the mad cow disease?
More or less. I quit eating beef for about 2 weeks, when it finally occurred to me that due to the BSE vectors, if madcow is rampant, odds are very good I already have it.
Now I just eat beef about once a week. Probably pointless, since the beef I eat is the low grade crap that would be infected anyway (i.e. fast food burgers and chili dogs. Mmmm, chili dogs.)
There was a recent study that showed a spongiform encephalopathy (don't recall if it was the bovine variant or not) could be carried by a generation of animals that exhibited no symptoms. Furthermore, there is a strong possibility of interspecies transmission, so that chicken sandwich you are eating is not necessarily as safe as you believe.
IOW, if BSE is actually present in quantity (and the only way to know is to test every cow, which is something that isn't done in the U.S.), then everyone who isn't a strict vegetarian is royally fscked, courtesy of the USDA.
Which basically means that if you avoid industrially processed/packaged meat and *don't* get BSE, you're going to be sharing the country with a handful of vegans and 250 million bloating corpses, and what's the point in that.
May as well eat the beef and not worry about it.
The only meat I eat is meat from Vegans.
Originally posted by: AsianriceX
I posted this in another one of those "Mad Cow Disease" threads. YAMCDT
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It's a mad cow disease faq. Read and be merry.
Know your food, know your diet, and know the people running your local dining establishments. None of the three require much time or much money and will all have a huge impact on how much you enjoy food.
Originally posted by: concept236
No go in Santa Clara (CA) area or San Jose (CA), either. I have a feeling this was a local promotion?
Yeah, no go to anywhere in San JoseOriginally posted by: concept236
No go in Santa Clara (CA) area or San Jose (CA), either. I have a feeling this was a local promotion?
Originally posted by: Adam8281
Know your food, know your diet, and know the people running your local dining establishments. None of the three require much time or much money and will all have a huge impact on how much you enjoy food.
So am I supposed to get to know all of my local McDonald's team? I have the feeling that if I did, it would probaby decrease rather than bolster my enjoyment of food