(28-10-10) Why McDonald's Happy Meal hamburgers won't decompose - the real story behind the story

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) 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 (http:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyD...). And 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.

With meats, the primary reason why they 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.

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