Facebook News: Kill off 10 friends get a free whopper

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Facebook Blows A Whopper Of An Opportunity



Hahaah this is hilarious+genious

[Snow]

I know a few people I would sacrifice for a whopper....

No facebook needed.

[Braden343]

dang, I would gladly have gotten rid of my friends for 50 whoppers

[LaneMeyer]

Burger King = radiated, hormone laden, pesticide filled, genetically modified shite

[Hanael]

Burger King = radiated, hormone laden, pesticide filled, genetically modified shite

but they're delicious.

what else can you ask, for a good whopper?

[rips4stoke]

Burger King = radiated, hormone laden, pesticide filled, genetically modified shite

exactly...good ol' fashioned american burgers lol!

[tomahawk]

Burger King = radiated, hormone laden, pesticide filled, genetically modified shite

i can understand the rest (to a certain extent), but how is irradiated meat a bad thing? in terms of health effects?

[LaneMeyer]

i can understand the rest (to a certain extent), but how is irradiated meat a bad thing? in terms of health effects?

Yeah, well I guess there are mixed reviews on that. I've eaten plenty a whopper in my day. I won't touch the stuff anymore.
But I'll tell you this, check out the documentary Seeds of Change and you will see how corporations like Monsanto are purposefully mutating our food supply so they can patent, control, and reap the profits from it.

[HerBDerb]

I don't know much about irradiated food, but wouldn't ingesting it expose you to some extent of rads?
Or have I just been playing too much Fallout?

[LaneMeyer]

I don't know much about irradiated food, but wouldn't ingesting it expose you to some extent of rads?
Or have I just been playing too much Fallout?

Supposedly it kills harmful bacteria and germs and what not. Don't know if it would actually expose you to radiation or not. Using your cell phone or having it near you when it rings exposes you to radiation though. Using the microwave exposes you to radiation.

[TheFuzz]

sometimes I won't even have my phone in my pocket and I feel vibration from the place it would sit in my pocket.


I should sue someone

[Rabid Skunk]

Absolutely genius marketing.

[tomahawk]

Yeah, well I guess there are mixed reviews on that. I've eaten plenty a whopper in my day. I won't touch the stuff anymore.
But I'll tell you this, check out the documentary Seeds of Change and you will see how corporations like Monsanto are purposefully mutating our food supply so they can patent, control, and reap the profits from it.

not really news. Monsanto is a massive chemical company. They make better seeds. seeds for plants that use less water, require less pesticides, grow larger, grow faster etc etc. They're a company, they need to make profits. I will agree with you that theyre practice of selling seeds engineered so that when the plants mature it's impossible to get regrow the seeds is bad (and particularly bad for 3rd world farmers who cant afford to farm on the scale required to buy seeds every season), but the practice of patenting, and profiting from something you invent/invest LOTS of money in/is WAY better than normal stuff is quite normal.

I dont see you complaining about computer companies that make better, faster, cooler (temperature wise) computer chips, then patent, control, and reap the profits from it.

Supposedly it kills harmful bacteria and germs and what not. Don't know if it would actually expose you to radiation or not. Using your cell phone or having it near you when it rings exposes you to radiation though. Using the microwave exposes you to radiation.

might i recommend a little bit of reading before blindy spouting things? Radiation is light. stepping outside exposes you to radiation. Light in certain wavelengths can indeed kill bacteria, but it has ZERO aftereffects. turn on the light in your room at night. then turn it off. do you see any bits of light left over? that's what irradiating your food does. you shine some special light on the meat, then turn off the light. there's no after effects, nothing. It just kills stuff that might be alive. which i think is good?

the radiation/irradiation you might be thinking of is akin to solid RADIOACTIVE chunks of some material. Now that stuff emits light in a specific verry harmful region of the light spectrum, and not to mention if you injest it it'll bombard your innards not only with light (sometimes for a VERY long time), but with little atoms of hydrogen and helium (not quite accurate, but simplified), which can cause great damage.

so unless food companies are sprinkling meat with a plutonium dust (or something similar) irradiation is a 100% harmless and more efficient method of sterilizing meat (oh, and before you ask, no they arent sprinkling meat with plutonium dust). They prolly use something like fancy light bulbs.



education: the ability to learn to determine things for yourself instead of blindly following what others say.

it's useful

[HerBDerb]

^ OK, so they're not bombarding it with neutrons, leaving it radioactive?
Just gamma/micro/other waves that don't leave and/or cause residual radiation?

Up until now, I didn't even realize that food was irradiated, other than when you microwave it.

[mc99david]

sometimes I won't even have my phone in my pocket and I feel vibration from the place it would sit in my pocket.


I should sue someone

i have that happen all the time too... its kinda weird.

[tomahawk]

^ OK, so they're not bombarding it with neutrons, leaving it radioactive?
Just gamma/micro/other waves that don't leave and/or cause residual radiation?

Up until now, I didn't even realize that food was irradiated, other than when you microwave it.

using particles (neutro, alpha, beta) to sterilize meat would be pointless. These particles (since they are particles) can only penetrate a tinnnnny amount below the surface. So you really wouldnt be sterilizing much of anything.

gamma/xrays/whatever rays on the other hand, will go straight through

[pennypusher]

the company that was leading the way in irradiated foods was surebeam,they went bankrupt 3 yrs ago.
for awhile allot of meats in the grocery had irradiated sticker on it ,then when they went bust it disappeared.
the idea is actually much safer for imported fruit and vegetables and the amount of radiation based on test i have read is insignificant.
but who knows if that is true.
using a microwave will also increase your estrogen levels buy minuscule amounts.

[tomahawk]

the idea is actually much safer for imported fruit and vegetables and the amount of radiation based on test i have read is insignificant.
but who knows if that is true.
using a microwave will also increase your estrogen levels buy minuscule amounts.

unless the company is doing something VERY VERY wrong, it's IMPOSSIBLE to have residual radiation on the meat from the irradiation process. I'm curious if the test you read measured whatever natural radiation the food emitted before the irradiation process.

as for microwave use increasing estrogen levels, do you have a citation for this study? I would think this very difficult to do a controlled study on/very very unlikely, short of the microwave process somehow causing a reaction in your food that would produce estrogen.


there is far too much hearsay and not enough hard science (and unfortunately too often shitty science) in these types of debates, so excuse my skepticism.

[pennypusher]

[tomahawk]

very interesting writeup about irradiation. it sounds biased against it, but raises very good points about
degradation or vitamins/other stuff.

I sincerely hope to god (and am pretty damn sure) that people only used linear accelerators/electron beams for studies, because I currently have to wait several months for even a shot at using one for my work, and if theyre using them to cook meat i'll be pissed

good to learn more about this, it's interesting. The other side of the story sounds less alarmist
Food Irradiation
Food irradiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

there still seems to be concerns, but not much seems concretely proven


as for microwaves, i'm a little more skeptical. making broad blanket statements that microwaves are bad for all foods doesnt seem quite a good approach.