So today I checked out this red worms stuff re McDonald's being forced to use red worms in their hamburgers and then decided that soy, now supposed to cause cancer - etc., and then added the mad cow disease and I wonder. There is such a thing as espionage and sabotage and rumour mills working overtime - we have mad cow disease and is the beef industry being sabotaged. Clintons have interest in Tyson Check and they are buying out the big beef company that was nearly run out by federal government for it is said plant had e coli problem - now Tyson buys it up and the English cattle slaughtered and millions more cattle being slaughtered - and now McDonalds - this old item on the web made me thing. For in 1978 a lot of things happened.....Wendy Hamberger was attempting to get organized and boy that House of the Sun in Florida - anyway, quite a few people bought into Presutti Chin in Columbus and they all went busto - but the feeling was "who the hell ever heard of a square hamberger". I think somebody is really sabotaging the meat industry - it is noted the these meat processing plants hire a lot of immigrants - cheap help, etc., union busting - and yet we are to buy the food at top dollar? Like raising gas is someone trying to raise the beef prices way up - for some of these hamburgers are now selling for ninety-nine cents, etc....... So this story find interesting - but why would this worm story be starting again? Nobody likes McDonalds it seems - shoot outs, and a natural tendency to hate McDonalds.....Italians hate them and now they have a pork hamburger supposedly - so there goes the non pork eaters business. Interesting item here - but cattle are being slaughtered all over the world - especially older cattle it is reported - red worms in McDonald Hamurgers? Instead of soy? Reference here to Jack on the Box - weren't they affected by lots of bad meant last year....but Tyson Chicken, who freezes and thaws and refreezes chicken - a Clinton investment buying out the burgers - and Burger King was it sabotged maybe by some of these competitors......reason I wondered is today they sell us Presidents like they do a pound of ground round......domestic sabotage? saba McSquirmies Claim: McDonald's hamburgers contain worm meat. Status: False. Origins: Common sense should tell us this rumour is false. Pound for pound, earthworms cost more than beef -- it doesn't make sense to use a filler that's more expensive than what's being replaced. Ah, but rumors don't rely upon common sense. It's the "yuck!" factor that gets us. The earthworm (sometimes kangaroo meat) additive whisper has bedeviled McDonald's. (In some locales, the local Jack in the Box is fingered instead of McDonald's.) Officially dating back to 1978 (it might well be older -- one reader recalls hearing it in 1973 or 1974) and of uncertain origin, this tale has a long tradition of being believed. By one common account, CBS's 60 Minutes dug up the worm scandal; in fact, it never had. Adding credibility to these tales, many corporate rumors include the names of television news or talk shows -- either the rumor was investigated and found to be true by [name of investigative show] or the CEO of whichever company appeared on [name of talk show] and admitted [horrifying thing]. One wonders at all these CEOs with something to hide showing up on talk shows. One also wonders at the prescience of those who book the guests, for one wouldn't think a chat with the relatively anonymous CEO of a large corporation would make for that interesting a show. As to what kind of damage a rumor like this can do, the experience of one owner of four McDonald's in Atlanta, Georgia, was typical. Back in 1978 he saw his sales plunge by 30% and consequently had to lay off about a third of his employees. Corporate rumors aren't victimless. McDonald's did what they could to refute the lie. From the 27 November 1978 issue of Newsweek: At an Atlanta press conference, McDonald's officials, backed by a regional officer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, denounced the rumors as "completely unfounded and unsubstantiated," and swore that the company's hamburgers contain nothing but beef. The 1 October 1982 Financial Times confirms the involvement of the Feds by saying that "the story gained such wide circulation that McDonald's held a press conference to rebut it and even obtained a letter from the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture attesting to the pure beef content of its burgers." Perhaps the final word on this subject should belong to Ray Kroc as quoted in the 30 April 1992 issue of Time: Ray Kroc, who bought McDonald's from Mac and Dick McDonald in 1955, added his own assurances: "We couldn't afford to grind worms into our meat," he countered. "Hamburger costs a dollar and a half a pound, and night crawlers six dollars." Barbara "would you like fries with that?" Mikkelson Last updated: 5 July 1999 The URL for this page is
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