Why We're Scared Of Happy Meals
By Kristian Laliberte
Art & Culture Refinery 29
New York, USA
Aug 26, 2010 4:00 PM
It's pretty much conventional wisdom that you don't head to McDonald's for a healthy treat. And, if you've seen Fast Food Nation, you'll know that the chain's offerings have got a whole lot of icky ingredients. Though we don't really like to think about that while munching on a Big Mac, NYC artist Sally Davies did, creating the Happy Meal art project that provides evidence that Mickey D's food really is the worst shiz you can put in your body. Davies took a Happy Meal sized burger and fries, put it on her living room table, and as Bravo says, decided to "watch what happens." She photographs said meal every day, and 137 days into the project (with no end in sight), the results are remarkable in the fact that they're really unremarkable. To our eyes, the burger and fries look exactly on the same on day 1 as on day 137. (As published Aug 26, 2010).
Today, Davies celebrates the second year anniversary of what is known as "'Happy Meal Project', by distributing in internet the daily photos that she takes of the bread, meat and fries that she acquired 730 days ago.
Until now, the only changes observed is that the bread has become dry and broken into two in some parts, while the hamburger meat, after the first few days, became like a "stone" and had shrunk a little bit, whereas the French fries maintained almost the same appearance.
Davies, in this way, defends that the food has experimented certain dehydration but has not initiated the process of putrefaction, indicating its poor nutritional values observing that "the food does not rot nor decay with the passing of time".
Davies began her artistic career as a painter for more than three decades and her paintings have appeared in various tv series, like "Sex in New York", although her huge step in photography started more than 15 years ago.
Source: El Mundo.es April 11, 2012.
I wonder how this will affect the burger sales from fast foods chains like McDonald's or Burger King. We will probably hear about this topic from the nutritionists sooner than we expect. But in the meantime, do not be hungry yet.
The real question asked 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?
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. Source: Natural News
If hamburger rots, then that would mean that it has great nutritional value?
ReplyDeleteI'll take a daily picture of a nut and see what happens after one year.
Fast food is not healthy, that's not a new discovery, we all know what we are eating each time we visit these places. By the way, I love them, once a month it doesn't hurt!
If the food item is in its natural state and has not been processed or cooked, it is most likely high in nutritional value. Vegetables, fruits and whole grains are a prime example of high nutritional value foods. However, in the case of the hamburger, it does not rot or smell differently because it
ReplyDeletehas no nutritional value being highly processed and no microorganisms that are responsible for the decomposition seem to thrive in the hamburger as Davies seems to prove in her photos for two decades. Many processed foods don't decompose and won't be eaten by molds, insects or even rodents. Davies says that even her dog does not eat the hamburger because it does not consider it as food. So next time you feel like eating hamburgers, give your Mom a call. I am sure she will be more than happy to make you some really yummy hamburgers.
Me too, I do prefer them a lot more!!
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