Learn from a Fungus and Free Yourself from McDs

There are so many launching points for this post, but the bottom line is that fungus is eating the organic free range hamburger and completely ignoring the McDs hamburger and bun after seven days of observation. After our initial experiments, we placed both burgers in the same container to observe their rates of decomposition. McDs shows no sign of fungus, and as you can see from this video, the organic free range burger is well on its way to becoming reintegrated with the earth: Hamburger Experiment- fungus

What does that tell you? What it tells me is that fungus is smarter than humans. It wants NOTHING to do with the McDs burger so far.

Fortunately for McDs, they are not catering to fungus. In fact, their control of the human race is so powerful that they are opening another 1,000 restaurants next year. They are going to have to change their sign from billions served to gazillions served. Or is that enslaved? Here is a snippet of the article McDonald's: 1,000 new restaurants in 2010:

Specifically, McDonald's plans for 150 new U.S. locations plus: 260 in Europe; 490 across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Australia; 80 in Latin America; and 20 in Canada.

"Today's market conditions have accentuated our strengths," said McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner. "The time is ideal for us to further differentiate our brand and grow market share. We are determined to keep stretching our business, increasing traffic and becoming more relevant to a growing number of customers around the world."

The restaurant, which already has more than 32,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries, is hoping the effort will drive sales growth up by 5% and income up by 7%.

 You can view our initial McDs experiments here:

McDonalds Hamburger Purchased

Which Hamburger Will Tibbles Choose?

Which Hamburger Will the Bugs Choose?

Rewind for a minute and pretend that you didn’t just read all of this. Here was the alternate way I was going to open this post.

I read a sad story today about how Overweight kids are coronary time bombs.

The article begins with a discussion about how a spokesperson for the American Heart Association drives around neighborhoods and children are not outside playing. What a contrast from my early childhood almost 40 years ago when you ran around the neighborhood and your parents only vaguely knew where you were. You could be gone for hours and no one worried. Today there is silence.

The article goes on to state: “Pate and other childhood obesity experts say more American youths are becoming obese because so many are addicted to television, video games, testing and fast food [emphasis added].”

Isn’t that the truth? We just arrived home from Colson’s gymnastics lesson, and even some of the kids that can perform incredible athletic feats are overweight, and not just slightly. There are about 8 overweight kids who span all ages in this class, but those girls sure can tumble! [Note: there are approximately 75 kids training at this class, but only 5 are boys, none of whom are overweight].

As I am watching the class, parents are bringing nauseating fast food into the observation area for siblings who aren’t on the floor. Tonight I overheard one father telling his daughter that if she didn’t finish her burger, then she wouldn’t get an “icy” or other treat later. All I could think is “Loving father…even fungus won’t eat that stuff, so don’t force your daughter to eat it!” Of course I didn’t say that, but I was hoping he could read my mind.

According to the article, here is what many of today’s kids are in for:

"Our study suggests that more of these young adults will have heart disease when they are 35-50 years old, resulting in more hospitalizations, medical procedures, need for chronic medications, missed work days and shortened life expectancy," said Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, lead author of the study.

A study released last November at a Heart Association conference found that the neck arteries in obese and overweight children were similar to those of 45-year-olds. The children in the study also had "abnormal cholesterol" and were said to be at high risk for heart disease in the future.

I think next week I will have to leave copies of this post lying around the gymnastics observation area.

I could go on and on with openings for this blog post, but I will stop for now.

Bottom line is that people have a choice to make: choose to eat healthy food and live a vibrant and fun life, or continue to feed themselves and their children poison and leave a legacy of family devastation.

Comments

[Maria Droujkova]

I think fungus and bacteria can't eat McDonald's burgers because of preservatives in them. Preservatives do not have direct effects of that sort on higher-order organisms. However, we are ecosystems supporting many lower creatures, with about 10% of human dry mass consisting of them. Eating stuff that kills, or does not feed, our cohabiting lower organisms may not be such a hot idea, even if it does not immediately influence our (other) cells.

I was thinking of ways to explain it quickly, though, and I draw a blank. The amount of science and logic is beyond a casual conversation. Maybe a catchy symbol/sign and a web page, together with a leaflet/sticker/graffiti/sidebar campaign behind it, would do the trick. My kingdom for a graphic designer!