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Study Unveils the Stomach-Turning Truth That Fast Food Burgers Are Made with Less Than 2% Real Meat (Video)

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by N.Morgan

Rumors have circulated for years about how the meat used by fast food restaurants is fake or even made from other animals besides cows.

According to NaturalSociety these cheaply-processed foods fuels illness and disease due to containing numerous harmful ingredients – some of which are actually banned in other countries.

A study published in the journal Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, found that some fast food hamburgers may contain as little as 2% actual meat.

For this study, researchers analyzed the content of 8 fast food hamburger brands.

To ensure that there was no bias in the results, they assigned each hamburger with an anonymously designated name, ranging from H1 to H8.

While it is widely assumed that hamburgers are made up primarily of meat, much of the 5 billion hamburgers consumed by Americans annually actual contain very little meat (and could contain a whole host of other, unhealthy ingredients.

Here is an analysis of what you might find lurking in a fast food hamburger according to the study’s findings:

Water content by weight ranged from 37.7% to 62.4% (mean of 49%).

Meat content in the hamburgers ranged from 2.1% to 14.8% (median of 12.1%).

The cost per gram of hamburger ranged from $0.02 to $0.16 (median of $0.03).

Relatively preserved skeletal muscle was observed.

A variety of tissue types besides skeletal muscle were observed including connective tissue, blood vessels, peripheral nerve, adipose tissue, plant material, cartilage, and bone.

In 2 hamburgers, intracellular parasites were identified.

The study concluded that:

“Fast food hamburgers are comprised of little meat (median, 12.1%). Approximately half of their weight is made up of water. Unexpected tissue types found in some hamburgers included bone, cartilage, and plant material; no brain tissue was present. Sarcocystis parasites were discovered in 2 hamburgers.”

The study abstract nor the 4 pages of the study reveal where the 8 hamburgers came from, which most individuals will find upsetting.

However the study most likely involved at least some popular fast food hamburgers, leaving you to make your own educated conclusion.

In the end, the research simply backs the notion that fast food is questionable at best and health-compromising at worst.

The junk food may be cheap, but it is questionable what you’re actually paying for with conventional food this day and age.

Fast food hamburgers contain numerous health-damaging ingredients, and is the complete opposite of healthful organic beef coming from grass-fed cows. Avoid fast food; good health depends on it.

The video below reveals more disgusting truths about how consumers are being secretly tricked by some companies.

15 Secrets Fast Food Companies Don’t Want You To Know

References:

http://naturalsociety.com/fast-food-hamburgers-contain-2-percent-actual-meat/

http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/elsevier/fast-food-hamburgers-what-are-we-really-eating-VyAI59oGbL?key=elsevier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracellular_parasite

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18995204

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1092913408000622

http://www.hnossalmeron.com/hamburguesas/prayson_anndiagpath_dec2008.pdf

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    • TheComingDepression

      They forgot to add the CHILD DNA that is in HAMBURGER MEAT!

      • Josie

        That’s right, I stopped eating hamburgers long time ago at fast food restaurants. There has been several articles about human DNA in fast food meat. Those meat peocessing plants should be shut down.

        • Dead man walking

          Soylent Green is people.

      • Just me

        Less than 2 percent? Ha ha. Does anyone really believe this PETA inspired crap? I worked my way through college in fast food joints – you people are lunatics.

        • 2QIK4U

          So? All you did was unwrap and heat whatever garbage the truck delivered. You probably fed your family on the leftovers to but you along with everyone else wouldn’t know what you were serving people. If you said you worked in a butchers or slaughter house I might listen but what would a minimum wage employee be told other than hurry up and work?

          • Just me

            Try reading – I was a college student (fast food manager) master in biology – not a minimum wage lackey. I’m and avid hunter, and yes, I butcher all my own meat – I know what meat it looks, smells, tastes and feels like. I’m not a foolish PETA sheep like you. This assertion is ridiculous and only an idiot would believe it.

            • 2QIK4U

              So you ordered the teenagers to unpack and cook whatever garbage the truck delivered. You wouldn’t have a clue still what they’re doing to it. I apologise to me even a manager of McDonalds is still a low paying job at most you balance the books and give orders. Unless your making the product personally you have just as much knowledge as the sucker that’s buying it. You still watch a truck deliver boxes and all you do is tell someone else to heat it up. Your a numbers person that’s keeping away from the product by delegating it to others… I’m not personally attacking you I’m just being honest with what you wrote. Even if there’s nothing sinister in fast food it will still kill you if you live on it. Eg SUPERSIZE ME. Look into how two American factories of McDonalds recently were found to have human DNA in thier grinders and process line… It was fairly recent to… Remember the ring that was found in a hotdog back in the eighties. They made jokes about it in a heap of movies

            • 2QIK4U

              A fast food manager a master of biology. WTF? that makes even less sense. So even if Now your some biology master. Defending fast food in any form shows that you aren’t. :) Thanks for playing and join us next week…

            • Ugly

              LOL. Good one!

              We all know how managers at fast food joints are experts on the product they are selling. You know, the managers that aren’t hiring employees that can score them some meth…..

            • Just me

              Working my way through college by working in fast food doesn’t make me an expert on anything. It just proves that, unlike you, I have first hand knowledge of what is being cooked, and served. Maybe you missed the part where I butcher and process my own meat. THAT makes me somewhat of an expert. You sir are a PETA file.

        • saucepan

          @ Just me: Yes, less than (or around) 2% meat does seem extremely low.

    • YellowRoseTx51

      Thanks for the article. That was very interesting.
      Good research.

    • Pink Slime

      Hello Angle#3,

      Charlie here. Thanx for pushing people towards fast DOUGHNUTS, instead of fast food. I highly recommend fast Doughnuts as it contains no meat, and therefore, according to vegetarians and dog-lovers is much better for you. :wink: :wink:

      And if you look into doughnuts, you’ll find it is 100% doughnuts!! No fillers are used. :lol: :lol:

      But I must take umbrage that fast foods are cheap. Have you ever seen the prices lately?? I think you are paying for the FAST and not the FOOD. For the same price you can get a dozen doughnuts. Share them with friends, or dogs (the 4-legged ones). :roll: :roll:

      Signed,

      Charlie (Guaranteed our doughnuts are 100% doughnuts or double your doughnuts back) :lol: :lol:

      • Sucking Chest Wound

        Yup. Independent studies have shown that donuts have 2% less premium quality grain fed meat than a hamburger. I would have never guessed that

      • DISPENSER

        I have heard that putting a meat-like substance between two doughnuts is the cat-like animals meow like response.

    • homeservicespro

      Nice post…here’s a follow up

    • Andy

      McChew-n-spew don’t lie about their 100% beef burgers, they just don’t tell you it’s mostly cartilage, bone, sinew, tendon & water

      • Just me

        Contrary to popular belief, ground meat is usually made up of the WORST cuts and includes, but is not limited to, the items you mention. That’s the definition of hamburger. Hotdogs are even worse but no mention that here because PETA is only after the big burger chains.

    • Ted

      I wonder if Third World located Meat Packing Plants from Countries that hate the United States aren’t putting Human Corpses into the Ground Beef?

      Why mot?

      • 2QIK4U

        True but not even three months ago Two American McDonalds plants tested positive for human DNA. The first World is also third world with a new coat of paint…

      • Sucking Chest Wound

        So that hoppy meal I et recently where I found a baby pacifier innit wasn’t a token toy? You sayin’ I ATE the previous owner? Jeez, I been suckin’ on that sucker for months when my wife’s out. *spit.

        • 2QIK4U

          Hahaha we have the Hoppy meals here to! 100% Skippy the bush Kangaroo! You don’t want to know what the toy is…

    • 2QIK4U

      You know how I’ve been trying to warn all American weed smokers that SOROS has screwed with the strain to make everyone sick…..? Results are now seen a year after my warnings! You will begin to see the entire weed industry in California blamed (deliberately planned by George Soros.) your the best naturalist out of all contributors and I’m sure will land in your lap eventually, I’m just putting it in your lap early. Check it out

      • 2QIK4U

        You should see hospitals reporting this and probably will act dumb as if they don’t know the cause!

    • Everette

      How does the FDA still exist ??? And I want to know who’s asses have they been kissing to allow them to serve American people their crap that is poisoning our systems . I pray they beheld accountable and the asses that have created this crap be strung up on a rope in front of the media for all the world to see ! I know the NWO Vatican natzi Esau Edomites and UN muslims are behind this crap ! Damn their world depopulation and Georgia Guide Stones ! It’s time the people of the world stand up and stomp their asses !!! I pray for their systems Damnation !!! They will be held accountable !!! Mark My words !!! The Son of Man is going to stomp their asses !!! Now everyone knows why GOD in Malachi 1:1-4 has stated that HE hates Esau and his descendants . HE even goes farther saying they will soon not exist as a people anymore in other passages of the Bible ! Jesus called them the seed of the devil and stated his works they shall do ! Well here you go ! Their next agenda is world war 3 to farther depopulate earth ! They want 6 1/2 billion of you gone ! They are having you sprayed with planes , poisoned with food , water , radiation , running frequencies on you , killing you with geo engineered storms , changing food DNA that will cause you to finally end up like Mad cows with mad cows type disease which come from feeding them other cows and geo DNA modified foods . They know that mankind can not eat foods that do not work with our DNA systems that GOD set up for our systems to use . These asses are trying to kill you !!! They are reptilians ( negative blood types ) . Now search out every official in world power and check their blood types . Those you find with negative blood types are also pushing the NWO natzi vatican ( zionist Esau ) agenda . Many of our past presidents of America were negative blood reptilians . Search out their executive orders and you will see behind your backs they were setting you up to destroy you ! The last idiot ordered 30,000 guillotines from China to behead Americans . He also ordered 30,000 drones that could be armed to fly over our heads and watch Americans and take them out should any oppose O idiots ass ! How this ass still walks around in America freely I don’t know ! He should have been strung up on a rope in front of our White House or Capitol building with media shooting the video for All the world to see ! People get ready , when they start the war their will be false flag bombings in America to aid their depopulation agenda . The nukes have already been set in major cities several years ago awaiting their word go ! These parasites must go !!! Beware of our nuclear power plants being messed up like Japan’s did . This would really hurt America should we experience melt downs like they did ! Damn these reptilians and their agenda !!! The devil is called the dragon , the serpent and the snake . Yes they are the children of the devil ! Only should they repent of their evil ways and except GOD’s sacriface on Calvery could they be saved . But will they ? Only GOD knows that answer ! But if they continue on their evil course to kill mankind ( GOD’s creation ) then I pray for their destruction ! Soon their leader and father ( lucifer ) will be cast to earth for the son of man to deal with ( Revelation 12 ) . But wow to those that have not ask for forgiveness and excepted GOD’s gift and ticket to be with HIM , because the devil will have great wrath because he knows his time is short when he has been cast down to earth and bound to its boarders . The vatican is expecting him very soon . I even read that the pope is getting ready to step down in spring 2018 to allow lucifer his seat . They built a telescope in Arizonia and named it lucifer because they are looking for lucifer their father . All the signs the Bible spoke of are lined up and ready to happen even now !

    • truck driver

      I picked up a load of chicken meal in a 39 foot end dump and this plant had a pyramid of dead chickens with feathers and feet sticking up in the air. As tall as a house and a front-end loader took a scoop of dead chickens into the plant

      • 2QIK4U

        MC NUGGETS. EEWWW

    • beefree

      I wish people would wake up… human traffickers …after they have exhausted their woman and children sex slaves… instead of letting them be free … they kill them… and send their bodies through the same grinder machines that animals go through … millions and millions of human trafficked have had their lives ended this way…and also the homeless… next time hear about missing homeless people… missing immigrants… missing prison inmates ??? Well they have been turned into your breakfast, lunch and or dinner … how would you really know? Animal and human meat looks all the same… please wake up…do an article…do something… and stop eating the evidence !!! :shock:

    • Johann Needlesmuggler

      Of course they feed you poison and human flesh. Why would u eat meat period? U are eating flesh and blood. It is savage and spiritually destructive

    • DISPENSER

      Kale has less than 1% vegetable matter! Don’t eat it!
      It is made from ALIEN flesh!

    • DISPENSER

      More BS from PETA. Did you know that BS contains less the 0.000073% shit from bulls, and up to 135% human baby who played with puppies, and kittens crap?

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