02-01-2012, 09:30 PM
Acer wrote:Bingo.
If you eat McDonald's hamburgers often enough that these trace chemicals will affect you, you're probably already dead from heart disease or diabetes.
The other list they have in the article is just silly. The implication that when an ingredient comes from some creepy place, like a beetle wing or sheep's wool somehow makes it "unfit" for humans just a value judgement. BEEF IS GROUND-UP COW MUSCLE but it's OK if it doesn't have beetle parts in it.
If you've got a serious health threat to talk about carry on. If all you've got is oogity-boogity, grade school yuck factor clucking or more of the interminable let's-cite-the-obvious-yet-again 'OMG, eating too much fast food is BAD for you' hand wringing, knock yourself out, but excuse me while I nod off.