A few weekends ago, on the drive back from my long weekend camping trip (a cold one at that!), I was presented with a familiar situation: hungry as all hell, but still hours away from home or a decent place to eat. Along the highway we were seeing McDonalds, Tim Hortons, Wendy’s… not very [...]
Hat tip to Ross Enamait: See how you do on this food quiz. I know, it’s only looking at fat and calories, not carbs or any other stuff, but nonetheless, it’s an illustrative quiz. It shows that virtually nothing you eat at a restaurant is as good for you as you want to [...]
Organic Consumers latest newsletter included this article: Who Loves Junk Food the Most: U.K., USA, or Canada?
From the newsletter:
44 percent of Americans agreed with the statement while only 19 percent of the French agreed.
And taking the grand prize (from the article):
Forty five percent of UK respondents agreed with the statement ‘I like the taste of [...]
Via The Ethicurean:
Eric Schlosser, of Fast Food Nation fame, has an article in today’s NY Times called Penny Foolish about the refusal of Burger King to pay an extra penny per pound for tomatoes.
I can’t boycott Burger King because, well, I don’t eat at Burger King. I do think it’s rather illustrative of the [...]
Via Mark’s Daily Apple - Fast Food Items Highest in Trans Fats
Here’s a brief sampling:
White Castle Homestyle Onion Rings - Sack; Trans Fat: 30 grams
White Castle Fish Nibblers - Sack;Trans Fat: 16 grams
KFC Chicken Pot Pie;Trans Fat: 14 grams
Burger King Hash Browns - Large;Trans Fat: 13 grams
White Castle Chicken Rings - 20 rings;Trans Fat: 13 [...]
From the local news yesterday, here is McDonald’s grasping for straws in an attempt to cover their backsides in a lawsuit. First, a bit of a primer. Someone was playing hoaxes on local McDonald’s that entailed employees being detained, strip searched, and sexually assaulted. McDonald’s knew about it and didn’t go public [...]
From pasture to corporate office, this game has it all. You can bull-doze a village and forestland to plant your soy and fatten your cows. You can add hormones, industrial sludge and dead animals to the feed. You can even use genetically-modified soy if you desire. And don’t forget to fire [...]
“The flavors that come together - it’s like heaven in your mouth,” said April Kohlhaas, a 31-year-old Chicago resident. “It’s just tradition, like American comfort food.”
Ok, now I had my fair share of Big Macs back in high school. However, “heaven” is far from a descriptor I would have ever used. Regardless, Americans [...]
According to three to five year olds
Researchers ordered some food from McDonald’s - chicken nuggets, hamburgers, fries, carrots, and milk - and fed it to the preschoolers. The catch was that each preschooler received two meals, one containing a chicken nugget, a part of a hamburger, some fries, a couple carrot sticks, and some [...]
This video was posted on Ross Enamait’s site yesterday: How to Get Fat Without Really Trying
It’s 10 minutes long and a good watch. There are quite a few salient points in the video, such as:
- The typical grocery store carries 30-50,000 products, most of which are processed.
- Americans consume 3 times as much corn [...]
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