The food you’re picking up in the drive-thru could be making you sick… and not just because it’s not a healthy option, but because now you could actually be ingesting mystery foreign items. Yes. You read that correctly. McDonald’s Japan just recently recalled 1 million Chicken McNuggets because there were reports of blue plastic particles found in potentially 1 million of the “Made with white meat” McNuggets.
McDonald’s company spokesperson Takashi Hasegasa says,
“We deeply apologize for the trouble we have caused our customers and we are taking quick measures to analyze the cause of the contamination.”
A spokesman from the supplier for McDonald’s nuggets, Cargill Meats Thailand, was quick to defend the plant, saying, “We are very confident that the plastic film in the nugget occurred outside of our production plant.”
So where did these mystery blue plastic particles come from? It seems like that will remain an unsolved mystery. In the meantime, McDonald’s, you’re making it really difficult for me to keep “lovin’ it” with these stories of pink slime, and mystery blue particles that I keep hearing about in the news. When will we realize that ‘eating healthy’ is the new ‘fast food’? Home cooked meals are the way to go if you want to live a long and healthy life. (At least we know what’s going in our home-cooked meal.) If we just stopped trading convenience for our health we would all be better off. So let’s all stop making excuses for our behavior and be a little more mindful when choosing what to eat for our next meal.
Christina
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