You could keep an apple for 1000 years, but who would want to eat it?
It is all those preservatives for shelf life.

Steve - it's a follow up of Supersizing America, book and movie, somebody put a McRotten burger on top of a cabinet to see what it does after a while, but forgot about it, and voila, six months later it was still "intact". So i guess Julia has done a "long term study". Maybe she would qualify for government grants. Question is, what does it do to your body, will it mummify you??? even tho i admit most Mc Ronies customers look as good as dead, and a little bit of mummification on them wouldn't hurt nothin'.

I'm a nutrition educator and my McDonald's burger was "born" May 15th, 2001. Even the pickles and the funky red sauce are still intact. I'm planning a special birthday party next May.
We seem so obsessed about the fat in fast food, but it's the stuff we don't know about that scares me!

Agreed, it is the stuff we don't know about that scares me too! Decades ago, we were picnicking in the woods, and tossed a piece of bread to the birds around us.

A few years later, we returned to that spot, and were surprised to find the bread, untouched by birds or weather. It was dirty, but otherwise, as we left it. It certainly made me think it was not food.

I went home and put a pat of butter on a saucer, and a pat of margarine on another. I set the saucers aside, and watched... over time, the butter melted, smelled awful and finally molded. The margarine simply got dusty.

Here's to real food!!!

Wow. I can't even fathom food that never breaks down. It can't have any nutrients. What happens to food that can't be broken down inside your body? I know we pass corn whole.

I'm just in shock. How can this be? I am so glad to be off the fake foods.

I really hurt for the masses who are eating this stuff.

I second Lynette - Here's to real food!!!

I am feeling quite nauseous having seen this video and now thinking back to the days when I would happily devour Big Macs and fries and didn't think twice about the rubbish I was putting into me.

Having recently being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes this kind of food is forever off my menu. If anything, should I weaken, I will think back to this video as a reminder as to why I won't be tempted.

Seriously, it is frightening just to realise how food is so fake today. Unless you grow your own, how can you trust what we are being lead to believe what is real these days.

seems like the differrence is the frying. at least for the potato. of course a fresh potato that is cut and left alone will rot faster than one that has been fried.. also, what about a hamburger cooked on the grill at home? How long do they last. Her message seems to be just a scare tactic. I don't eat 4 year old anything that I know of and I don't eat raw potatoes!!

I don't think it's necessarily the foods that are bad for you, but the hormones and steroids that are used to speed up the growth and maturity of the foods that we eat. Anything for busk, as the saying goes. If they can get the plants to grow faster and produce more, bigger fruits and veggies, by the pound they will make more money over all. Our kids & our adults may have bad eating habits will make them overweight however,if you are what you eat and we all eat foods injected with growth enhancements, hormones and steroids.....we might just as well inject ourselves with these additives.

Just imagine how far this is from food?

Has any scientist looked into just what causes this "food" not to deteriorate away?

Just what is added to McRonnies to make this happen as in the video?

What does it do inside our bodies? Even if it just passes through there can't be any nutrient left to aid our health.

I am horrified at what I have seen. But I have questions.
Has any scientist investigated what is in the "food" referred to in the video?
Just what causes the "food" to remain in such a "good" condition? Whatever is preserving it goes into the body of the person consuming it. Will it do any damage or will it pass through naturally?
Obviously there is no nutritional value in such a meal but what damage it is doing as well.