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[–] 4 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

It's not fake, at least not in countries with food safety standards -- or standards in general -- but I can't confirm whether it's always 100% beef in the patties that they claim is.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    There's not enough cows on this entire planet to supply all the different kinds of cuts of meat, and ground beef for all restaurants and businesses making "100%" ground beef entrées. Not to mention, all the grocery stores that sell prepackaged meat that looks nothing like meat straight from the cow. McDonald's uses fake meat, it is frozen paste imitation "meat" to make people think they are eating "100%" real beef.

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    Debunked or not, McDonald's is still disgusting and the amount of people who are coming in with comments backing up McDonald's instead of agreeing they are gross, really shows how many of you still live in the matrix and haven't woken up to realize that there is poison in everything. There's cancer in the food people. When you're buying your next round of groceries from the store, be sure to look and see how many items you buy that have "Contains a bioengineered food ingredient" on it.

    Needless to say, I'm done with the McDonald's talk because it doesn't affect my life or my body because I make all my meals at home with carefully selected ingredients and everything organic.

    Peace. ✌🏻

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    People here care about whether claims are accurate. We do our best to care regardless of how the narrative does or doesn't fit into our worldview (though that is not always easy)

    I'm generally inclined to agree McDonald's is gross, but I think misinformation and conspiracy theories are frankly much grosser

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    While all of that is true and most of what they're saying is nonsense, it is worth acknowledging that bioengineering in the stricter sense of the word they're alluding to has been used to engineer resistance to pesticide that does have carcinogenic effects, so there are meaningful detriments to something being bioengineered beyond what is likely from selective breeding or grafting.

    Issues around how to define the term and the way industry lobbying shapes everything ever are valid, but concern around how chemical giants are using the newer processes for modifying the genetics of seeds are also understandable.

    In both the cases: the definitional issues, and and also the ways that giant companies are using bioengineering to create proprietary crops with chemical resistance to harmful pesticides they also sell, the underlying issue is capitalism and how money warps anything potentially good. Newer bioengineering processes could greatly improve food supply, and legislation could ensure consumers can make informed choices about what technologies shape the foods they choose to eat. In both cases something that could do good was was warped to serve the financial interests of large corporations

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