The Immortal McDonald's Happy Meal

Why are people feeding their kids McDonald’s Happy Meals when mold, insects, and rodents won’t even eat them?

This disturbing fact was brought to the media’s attention by artist and photographer, Sally Davies.

Davies purchased a McDonald’s Happy Meal in April of this year. As an experiment with her friend, she left it out on her kitchen counter and documented the changes, or lack thereof, of the fries, patty, and buns.  Now, six months later, “The only change that I can see is that it has become hard as a rock,” Davies told the UK Daily Mail. There is no sign of mold or any form of decomposition.

In a statement defending the quality of the restaurant’s food quality, McDonald’s spokeswoman Theresa Riley responded,

“McDonald’s hamburger patties in the United States are made with 100% USDA-inspected ground beef. Our hamburgers are cooked and prepared with salt, pepper, and nothing else – no preservatives, no fillers. Our hamburger buns are baked locally, are made from North American-grown wheat flour and include common government-approved ingredients designed to assure food quality and safety.”

If McDonald’s hamburgers are “preservative-free”, then what is the secret behind their ability to resist decomposition? I’m sure many middle-aged women are dying to know.

Mike Adams explains in his post on NaturalNews.com, salt acts as a preservative in food, and McDonald meat patties have lots of it. And if you take a look at the ingredient list of the buns, you’ll realize why fungi and bacteria won’t even eat them – the buns contain so many chemicals that from a nature’s perspective, they’re not recognized as food. It is even more alarming that these ingredients are “common and government-approved”.  

McDonald unluckily became the target of this experiment and negative publicity. But many processed foods don’t decompose due to high sodium and chemical contents.  Margarine, potato chips, and frozen pizzas are just a few examples of other virtually immortal foods.

We did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat chemicals.