The Horrors of McNuggets

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When most people think of McDonald’s, they typically think of the Golden Arch, their famous French fries, cheeseburgers, or their tender, juicy all white meat chicken nuggets, sandwiches, and strips. But what most people don’t know is what really goes into these so called 100% all white meat Chicken McNuggets. The horrid things that they use in their nuggets are right under our noses in the ingredient list, but do we ever take the time to actually read and research what their made of? No, because we all trust the McDonald’s Corporation when they tell us that McNuggets are made from 100% all white meat chicken, right? They wouldn’t feed us anything that could potentially harm us, would they?
In 1979, McDonald’s Executive Chef Rene Arend created chicken nuggets. In 1980, McDonald’s test marketed these nuggets at one of their restaurant locations in Knoxville, TN for the very first time. The nuggets received great praise and their popularity was overwhelming. Soon after, other McDonald’s franchises heard about these nuggets and they were in high demand from every franchise. The demands for these chicken nuggets were in such a high demand that the McDonald’s Corporation could not keep up with the demand nor supply them to every franchise. The McDonald’s Corporation encountered a few bumps in the road such as being able to have enough chicken to make the nuggets, and keeping the nuggets frozen while being transported to each of their franchises, but by 1983 they had solved this problem. McDonald’s first introduced Chicken McNuggets to their menu in 1983. Since then, people have been hooked on these McNuggets. The nuggets are sold in small boxes of four, six, ten, or twenty pieces and come in four shapes: bell, bone, boot, and ball. The...

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...d think that McDonald’s would jeopardize out health by using silicone and tertiary butyl hydroquinone in the food that they market to us and our kids? They lied to us about using 100% all white meat chicken for their nuggets and other chicken products, I wonder what else are they’re lying to us about? Who knows, maybe their 100% beef isn’t really beef. One can never be so sure these days.

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