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Russian President Putin has banned GMO's and is now going after the fast-food-chain McDonald's over their menu products. China also has it's problem's with McDonald's.
Safety of the entire McDonald’s fast food chain called into question by Russian health officials
_http://www.naturalnews.com/046191_McDonalds_Russia_food_safety.html##ixzz38gqCcl2L
The scary-looking clown named Ronald McDonald and his minions are going to court.
Russia, which has already denounced genetically modified food earlier this year, is now taking McDonald’s to court. A Moscow court recently announced that the fast food chain has violated Russia’s nutrition and safety codes for many of its burger and ice cream products.
The case is set to be heard at Tverskoi District Court. Russian health officials are already threatening to place a temporary ban on McDonald’s ice cream, milkshakes, cheeseburgers, and Filet-O-Fish and chicken sandwiches. A hearing is scheduled for August 13.
The Interfax news agency reported that Russia’s consumer protection agency has identified several product quality violations that have called into question the safety and integrity of the entire McDonald’s food chain. The McDonald’s products under question contain more fats and carbohydrates than are allowed by Russia’s health-conscious regulations.
Inspections at two McDonald’s restaurants in Novgorod found that caloric values of milk shakes, fish sandwiches and Royal Cheeseburgers (the Russian equivalent of Quarter Pounders) exceeded safety standards, harboring two to three times more calories per serving than legally allowed.
This means that the court could temporarily shut down all of McDonald’s operations in Russia. A spokesperson for the Tverskoi District Court, Yekaterina Korotova, didn’t comment on the matter but relayed that the consumer protection agency is demanding that the court “halt McDonald’s illegal activity.”
Will Russia push McDonald’s out of their country for good?
Big Mac bun is nothing close to real bread
While calorie, fat and carbohydrate levels of McDonald’s food measure through the roof, it’s what the food is made out of that should be most troubling to consumers.
For example, a Big Mac bun is not real bread but, instead, a mixture of bleached wheat, malted barley flour, thiamin mononitrate and fake vitamin enrichments. This enriched flour is mixed with the biotech industry’s usual flavor science of high-fructose corn syrup and soybean and canola oil. A couple of ammonia compounds like ammonium sulfate and ammonium chloride are added along with dangerous conditioners like azodicarbonamide, which is outlawed in some countries. McDonald’s also preserves its buns using sorbic acid, calcium propionate and sodium propionate, while conditioning the dough further by using ingredients like sodium stearoyl lactylate, DATEM and mono- and diglycerides. To finish it off, the bread concoction is riddled with salt, sugar, wheat gluten and soy lecithin.
And this is only the McDonald’s buns.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.mcdonalds.com
http://www.nytimes.com
http://money.msn.com
http://science.naturalnews.com
McDonald's Stands By Meat Supplier Amid Shanghai Food Scandal
_http://www.activistpost.com/2014/07/mcdonalds-stands-by-meat-supplier-amid.html#more
One of the latest food scares has rocked Shanghai, China and the restaurant chains serving patrons there. Recent revelations have also rocked trust in the processed food system. A TV report on Sunday showed workers at a branch of Shanghai Husi Food Co Ltd, owned by Illinois-based OSI Group, using expired meats and those that had fallen on the floor.
Yesterday, five people connected to the company were arrested and detained by Shanghai police. Yum Brands Inc which owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut have cut ties with the company. Starbucks pulled away too, after having to recall its apple-chicken panini sandwiches from its Chinese chains. Hong Kong has just banned importation of OSI's products.
But this food system issue has implications for the U.S. as well.
McDonald's had said previously to Reuters, "If proven, the practices outlined in the reports are completely unacceptable to McDonald's anywhere in the world."
However, it looks as though they have changed their tune. Or at least, there's a caveat. On Tuesday, they said they were no longer serving food from the primary Husi facility, but...
Chicago Tribune has reported:
“According to OSI, Chinese authorities have inspected Husi’s other facilities, allowing us to confidently serve our customers,” the world's largest hamburger chain said in a statement.
Oak Brook-based [Illinois] McDonald’s said it sourced chicken, beef, pork and lettuce from Shanghai Husi. Now, it plans to get such items from Husi’s “new state-of-the-art facility” in Henan.
An imaginary camera zooms in on a random McDonald's patron who says, "Aw! I just ate there last week, man!"
In other words, this could be the first time people are realizing where their fast food actually comes from. And without really saying it, it sounds like McD's just admitted to serving expired, dirty meat to U.S. customers. Measures were taken to seal and block meat upon revelation, but how long had expired floor-meats been used? McDonald's feels "a bit deceived"? What about the people eating it?
This time it'll be different, right?
McDonald's is standing by OSI and its new facility in China, putting faith in current inspections. Why? OSI is basically "made for" McDonald's because the group is the fast-food chain's biggest supplier. And how would the world's biggest fast food chain suddenly cut off its biggest supplier? Yum Brands and Starbucks didn't really utilize OSI supplies that much.
Unfortunately, some former employees of OSI branches have alleged similar unclean working conditions in Illinois. One employee alleged cow hair, sweat, spit and chewed gum going into the vats.
Last Fall, the USDA lifted bans on Chinese processed chicken imports. Chicken produced here can be shipped to China for processing and then sent back to the states. Oddly, it remains a cheap process. And the imports aren't really inspected. It gets worse - the USDA doesn't plan on having on-site inspections or use inspectors for U.S. chicken, but will take the word of poultry processor employees. Why? It speeds things up and saves money.
Are these more signs that a top-heavy processed food system in the U.S. is about to topple?
Safety of the entire McDonald’s fast food chain called into question by Russian health officials
_http://www.naturalnews.com/046191_McDonalds_Russia_food_safety.html##ixzz38gqCcl2L
The scary-looking clown named Ronald McDonald and his minions are going to court.
Russia, which has already denounced genetically modified food earlier this year, is now taking McDonald’s to court. A Moscow court recently announced that the fast food chain has violated Russia’s nutrition and safety codes for many of its burger and ice cream products.
The case is set to be heard at Tverskoi District Court. Russian health officials are already threatening to place a temporary ban on McDonald’s ice cream, milkshakes, cheeseburgers, and Filet-O-Fish and chicken sandwiches. A hearing is scheduled for August 13.
The Interfax news agency reported that Russia’s consumer protection agency has identified several product quality violations that have called into question the safety and integrity of the entire McDonald’s food chain. The McDonald’s products under question contain more fats and carbohydrates than are allowed by Russia’s health-conscious regulations.
Inspections at two McDonald’s restaurants in Novgorod found that caloric values of milk shakes, fish sandwiches and Royal Cheeseburgers (the Russian equivalent of Quarter Pounders) exceeded safety standards, harboring two to three times more calories per serving than legally allowed.
This means that the court could temporarily shut down all of McDonald’s operations in Russia. A spokesperson for the Tverskoi District Court, Yekaterina Korotova, didn’t comment on the matter but relayed that the consumer protection agency is demanding that the court “halt McDonald’s illegal activity.”
Will Russia push McDonald’s out of their country for good?
Big Mac bun is nothing close to real bread
While calorie, fat and carbohydrate levels of McDonald’s food measure through the roof, it’s what the food is made out of that should be most troubling to consumers.
For example, a Big Mac bun is not real bread but, instead, a mixture of bleached wheat, malted barley flour, thiamin mononitrate and fake vitamin enrichments. This enriched flour is mixed with the biotech industry’s usual flavor science of high-fructose corn syrup and soybean and canola oil. A couple of ammonia compounds like ammonium sulfate and ammonium chloride are added along with dangerous conditioners like azodicarbonamide, which is outlawed in some countries. McDonald’s also preserves its buns using sorbic acid, calcium propionate and sodium propionate, while conditioning the dough further by using ingredients like sodium stearoyl lactylate, DATEM and mono- and diglycerides. To finish it off, the bread concoction is riddled with salt, sugar, wheat gluten and soy lecithin.
And this is only the McDonald’s buns.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.mcdonalds.com
http://www.nytimes.com
http://money.msn.com
http://science.naturalnews.com
McDonald's Stands By Meat Supplier Amid Shanghai Food Scandal
_http://www.activistpost.com/2014/07/mcdonalds-stands-by-meat-supplier-amid.html#more
One of the latest food scares has rocked Shanghai, China and the restaurant chains serving patrons there. Recent revelations have also rocked trust in the processed food system. A TV report on Sunday showed workers at a branch of Shanghai Husi Food Co Ltd, owned by Illinois-based OSI Group, using expired meats and those that had fallen on the floor.
Yesterday, five people connected to the company were arrested and detained by Shanghai police. Yum Brands Inc which owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut have cut ties with the company. Starbucks pulled away too, after having to recall its apple-chicken panini sandwiches from its Chinese chains. Hong Kong has just banned importation of OSI's products.
But this food system issue has implications for the U.S. as well.
McDonald's had said previously to Reuters, "If proven, the practices outlined in the reports are completely unacceptable to McDonald's anywhere in the world."
However, it looks as though they have changed their tune. Or at least, there's a caveat. On Tuesday, they said they were no longer serving food from the primary Husi facility, but...
Chicago Tribune has reported:
“According to OSI, Chinese authorities have inspected Husi’s other facilities, allowing us to confidently serve our customers,” the world's largest hamburger chain said in a statement.
Oak Brook-based [Illinois] McDonald’s said it sourced chicken, beef, pork and lettuce from Shanghai Husi. Now, it plans to get such items from Husi’s “new state-of-the-art facility” in Henan.
An imaginary camera zooms in on a random McDonald's patron who says, "Aw! I just ate there last week, man!"
In other words, this could be the first time people are realizing where their fast food actually comes from. And without really saying it, it sounds like McD's just admitted to serving expired, dirty meat to U.S. customers. Measures were taken to seal and block meat upon revelation, but how long had expired floor-meats been used? McDonald's feels "a bit deceived"? What about the people eating it?
This time it'll be different, right?
McDonald's is standing by OSI and its new facility in China, putting faith in current inspections. Why? OSI is basically "made for" McDonald's because the group is the fast-food chain's biggest supplier. And how would the world's biggest fast food chain suddenly cut off its biggest supplier? Yum Brands and Starbucks didn't really utilize OSI supplies that much.
Unfortunately, some former employees of OSI branches have alleged similar unclean working conditions in Illinois. One employee alleged cow hair, sweat, spit and chewed gum going into the vats.
Last Fall, the USDA lifted bans on Chinese processed chicken imports. Chicken produced here can be shipped to China for processing and then sent back to the states. Oddly, it remains a cheap process. And the imports aren't really inspected. It gets worse - the USDA doesn't plan on having on-site inspections or use inspectors for U.S. chicken, but will take the word of poultry processor employees. Why? It speeds things up and saves money.
Are these more signs that a top-heavy processed food system in the U.S. is about to topple?