McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, et al.....

[Mind_your_head]

They've all got a supply chain (many supply chains) in place. Would anyone care to explain for those of us outside of the food industry how it all works/goes?

Thanks in advance,
M_Y_H

[provis99]

1. quite simple.

the conveyor belt from the public landfill goes straight into the kitchen!:P

[Jamastiene]

4. Hey, that's the perfect answer. n/t

[ret5hd]

6. and then the conveyor goes right from the toilet to the landfill!!!

The circle of life!

[Initech]

28. There was a great joke on the Simpsons about that.

Homer and Marge are at opposite sides of a food court ordering different entrees and then it cuts to underneath the ordering booths and there's a large vat of meat and the "chef" puts two pieces of it on plates and sends it up a conveyor belt.

:rofl:

[nosmokes]

2. GM corn , grown in poisoned soil w/ petro additives is fed, along w/ all sorts of

other yummy stuff that is not part of their regular diet to animals that rarely if ever see the sky or set foot on the actual earth. the corn is also processed into bread, mayo,mustard, and ketchup. the animals, never healthy because of draconian conditions are shot full of anti-biotics (creating super bugs that make us sick but can't be treated by standard anti-biotics because the bugs built a defense to them due to gratuitous use in the animals, forced to live in their own filth.

bon appetit!

For the record and y'all can dump on me all the fark you want, but no real liberal eats at those places w/ any sort of regularity.

[global1]

8. Soylent Green.........nt

[niyad]

10. have been boycotting mcd's since 1970-- and rarely eat at any of the other chains

(and NEVER a burger--even before I read "fast food nation". being allergic to anti-biotics and sodium will do that.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

20. "no real liberal eats at those places w/ any sort of regularity."

Oh, get over yourself.

[nosmokes]

24. feeling a litle guilt and shame there for supporting an industry

that routinely is among the top for labor abuse, contributing to global warming, the western diet problem,animal abuse and torture and just plain serving shitty food?

I got nothing to 'get over' but the fact I have principles and stick to them.

What's your excuse?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

29. Nope. Sorry. No guilt.

Did you type your post on a union-made, completely recyclable American-built computer that consumes no energy from fossil fuels? No? Feeling guilty?

[nosmokes]

30. you make no sense

I make decisions that make a difference.

Now if you can live w/ being a soulless conumatron and go about your bidness not caring( and by caring I mean actually doing something) about more than your personal comfort then WTF is your point?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

31. First off, you didn't answer my question.

Do you or do you not feel guilty about using a product - your computer - that was almost certainly produced (or its constituent parts produced) in an environment with exactly the same sorts of problems that you are railing against with respect to fast food places? And if you don't feel guilty about purchasing your computer, why should I feel guilty about purchasing the odd item every now and then from a fast food joint?

[LeftyMom]

3. Sure.

Read this: http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Food-Nation-Dark-All-American/dp/0060938455

You're welcome.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. I recommend you watch: Food, Inc

Good luck.

[Kat45]

9. I was just going to make the same suggestion.

Scary to see where our food comes from. And I had no idea the McDonald brothers were originally responsible for it.

[hobbit709]

15. More like Ray Kroc.

He bought out the McDonald brothers and screwed them over.

[Kat45]

19. I know he did but the movie said the McDonald brothers started the whole thing

regarding the way food came to be 'manufactured.'

[GentryDixon]

21. That movie was enough to make me want to dig up

my back yard for planting & get a few chickens. Too bad I live in a planned community.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

23. Incredibly disturbing. The amount of pain and suffering inflicted upon those animals

is horrendous. It has changed many of my shopping and eating patterns.

[dana_b]

25. and read "The Omnivore's Dilemma"

Michael Pollan was in Food Inc. as well as one of the farmers that he wrote about - Joel Somethingorother. That book will change the way people eat.

[MilesColtrane]

7. The first step:

[valerief]

11. Toxins + Food = Foodstuff nt

[Tesha]

12. If you are asking a serious question, you might want to make it a bit more concrete.

Otherwise, the peanut gallery is just going to keep piling
on with their usual chorus of bull.

What, in particular, do you want to know?

Tesha

[onethatcares]

13. my question would be.

does each mega group have it's own one stop shopping. Do they control the beef, the potatos, the lettuce/onion/pickles, bread, etc that goes into their tasty morsels of delite?

Or do they bid on it in an auction type situation.

For some reason, I feel like I'm answering my own question and it sounding like the peanut gallery. Wallstreet sells stock in mcds, bk, kfc, they in turn buy a stake in the filth farms, continually collecting profits on all sides.


BTW, my question is serious. Thanx and Peace

[Tesha]

17. MDonalds seem to use Martin-Brower as their main purveyor.

http://www.martin-brower.com/home.html

Frankly, I don't think McDonalds products are filthy.; I think they're generally
of pretty good quality. For some reason, I'm not as sanguine about some of
the other fast food brands.

Tesha

[Selatius]

14. Typically, they own the supply chain itself. That is, they own large corporate farms.

Or, they have contracts with corporate farms that produce the things that they need, such as farms that raise herds of chickens in warehouses. To get that stuff to the processing plant or the slaughter house, they also own or contract trucking companies to move the goods to the processing centers to be turned into the stuff we can eat. Then, all the stuff is either flash dried or frozen or cooked/frozen and stored in centrally located warehouses that directly supply the outlets. Again, the trucks are used to move the goods from the warehouse to the freezer at your local McD's and so forth. From there, it gets reheated or cooked and served to you.

Voilà! Bon appétit, mes amis.

[HopeHoops]

16. Road kill cleanup crews feed carcasses into a truck-mounted meat grinder.

They dump it into used septic tanks for storage. It is scooped out with an old land-fill backhoe and loaded into used manure transport dump trucks and emptied in a pile at the "burger patty" processing facilities. There it is sent along a conveyor belt, rolled, pressed, and stamped into burger shapes and frozen for shipment to the "quality fast food" restaurants.

[JFN1]

18. Don't forget Applebees, Chilis, Bob Evans, Cracker Barrell, etc.

These medium price chain restaurants all get their food from the same place...Sysco, or FoodBent, or whoever...it's all the same processed crap that fast food places serve...just in a different package/setting...

[Yavapai]

22. I live just off of the famous Route 66,

and I ate at a sonic a while back.

I took a photo of it and want to put it on a tee-shirt with the slogan: "I GOT THE SHITS, ON ROUTE 66"

Worse meal I can remember having, ever!

[KamaAina]

26. We were just discussing fast food the other night

at our UU social justice group.

Someone brought up the idea of taxing them. My counterproposal: A settlement similar to the tobacco settlement. Budget problems solved!

[Swede]

27. Not fast food,just good food fast.