They did not “always” fry them in tallow. They stopped doing so in the early 90s (except in the Chinese/Hong Kong market: the subject of other corporate non-apologies to Muslims, Hindis, and Buddhists) and heavily marketed this switch.
In the 8 years after the switch to vegetable oil, some stores sold a McDonalds veggie burger, with official corporate signage. This was sold in a meal deal with fries, and was marketed towards vegetarian groups.
I asked a number of store managers after becoming vegetarian of the fries were vegetarian, and was told by different franchise owners that they were. Some stores even had a veggie menu (“grilled cheese”), that was prepared separate from the meat.
I’m sorry that the fries don’t taste the same to you now, but this move had much greater repercussions for millions who don’t eat beef products and were directly lied to.
Actually it’s pretty well supported by evidence. I made sure it wasn’t yet another hoax from NaturalNews.com.
In 2014 the Dutch television programme Keuringsdienst van Waarde visited two factories in China where human hair is turned into L-cysteine. Mother Jones did a story on it in 2010…
One researcher at Watson Inc., a company that specializes in dough conditioners, told me he insists on duck-feather cysteine, but added that he knows plenty of companies that don’t.
But yes it’s use has apparently dropped considerably.
Cereal maker Kellogg’s told me it no longer uses L-cys in Pop-Tarts, and that its formula specifics are proprietary in any case.
As the BBC reports…
Ten to 15 years ago human hair was a main source of L-cysteine. Producers, mainly based in China, extracted it from hair clippings from salons, even strands collected from hairbrushes.
But as people became more aware of what was in their food, they simply didn’t like the thought of human hair having anything to do with what they ate. More Chinese people also started perming their hair, which made extracting the amino acid more difficult.
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Now L-cysteine comes mainly from chicken and duck feathers, which can be collected in larger quantities than hair. In recent years it has also started to be manufactured synthetically.
Replace all your junk food calories with eggs. Fry them in butter and salt for all it matters. In two weeks you’ll likely have lost a nice amount of fat. For a good portion of people without pre-existing / genetic conditions, your blood work will probably be better too.
And interestingly, some spices are thought to provide more than trace amounts of nutrients. Ground seeds (like sesame), for example, not only provide flavor but also protein.
He does and that is awesome, but I’m really skeptical of the ability of small-scale farms to meet the caloric demands for the human population. It’s good to get away from the industrial monstrosity we’re in, but I think it’s equally important to remember that things like nitrogen treatments for soils draws millions of people out of hunger. It’s a trade off, and we’re too far in the direction of machination, but I think it’s important not to dismiss food treatment out-of-hand.
Interestingly enough, McDonalds actually has fairly high standards for their raw ingredients. They get meat at a ridiculously low price because they buy it in amounts large enough that there’s virtually no incentive to lower theirs standards - it wouldn’t save enough money to be worth doing.
Not to mention the fact animals turn low quality plant sources (like grass) into viable food products with much more caloric density than the vast majority of plants. Also if you are working on a farm and doing lots of manual labor a steady intake of protein is probably a very good thing, even if it is something as simple as eggs and milk.
It’s true that many baking powders do contain aluminum, however the one pictured is Rumford’s, which is aluminum-free. I have two cans of it in our cupboard. Rumford’s also works to keep GMOs out of their products as well. Yay them!
Tomorrow is pancake day, and we use a lot of Rumford’s baking powder. Perhaps if I threaten the kids with Chicken McNuggets (which they have never eaten) I can get them to help measure, stir the pancake batter, and cook the cakes in our big iron skillet.
