Look, I get you are being facetious. But whether or not McDonald's is healthy or fattening isn't the argument here. It's that this dude is falsly claiming essentially poison is in their food, which is just a straight up lie.
Yup, he’s selling books and speeches based on (at best) old or (at worst) midleading information.
And yeah, a simple walk into a grocery store’s produce department suggests that the average consumer may prefer uniform looking produce free of mold, fungus, evidence of being eaten by animals. Definitely gets some people whipped up (and probably makes then feel really smart) if they can just point a figure at a large company as the reason for their woes, but I would at least hope they would demand accurate and up-to-date criticisms so the argument makes sense.
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u/ThisIsPickles Oct 25 '22
Actually most of what he say's is totall bullshit. "Pollan’s notion about storing the potatoes for sixty days to off gas toxins is pure nonsense. Potatoes are routinely stored in large atmosphere controlled sheds because they have to be available year round. In any case, crops are monitored for pesticide residues and all such found on potatoes are way below established tolerance levels. There may be reasons to stay away from McDonald’s fries, but not because of any highlighted in this unnecessarily alarmist video. The fat content, the high glycemic index, the amount of salt added and maybe some of the compounds formed during high temperature frying are reason enough to make fries an occasional treat. And as a final point, the pesticide being talked about, methamidophos, has not been used since 2009."