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of salt mcdonald's french fries are one of the world's favorite snacks with an
astonishing 4 million kilograms being sold every single day a full quarter of these are sold in
the united states alone accounting for nearly 33 percent of all fries sold and seven percent of all
potatoes grown in the country with over 37 000 restaurants worldwide mcdonald's is by far the
largest fast food company in the world serving its world famous fries burgers and other items in more
than 120 countries however as we have previously covered in our video when did mcdonald's start
supersizing meals the sheer ubiquity has become something of an achilles heel turning mcdonald's
into a global symbol of and scapegoat 4 issues as diverse as global capitalism abuse of workers
american imperialism environmental degradation and the obesity pandemic mcdonald's restaurants
are often the target of violent protests and the chain has banned in over 90 countries but perhaps
the greatest single controversy the fast food giants even involved in centers not on its global
business practices or the treatment of its workers but the contents of its most popular and seemingly
innocuous product at first glance it might be difficult to see how french fries could possibly
be controversial after all they simply sticks a potato fried in oil but in today's processed food
landscape things are never as simple as they seem and according to official mcdonald's sources their
famous french fries actually contain a whopping 19 ingredients they are potatoes canola oil soybean
oil hydrogenated soybean oil hydrogenized wheat hydrolyzed milk citric acid dimethylpolysiloxane
dextrose sodium acid pyrophosphate salt and canola oil twice apparently that's not us repeating it
corn oil soybean oil hydrogenated soybean oil something unpronounceable tert buta hyquinone
maybe citric acid dimethyl polysiloxane natural flavor well this might seem alarmingly excessive
for a simple french fry you probably notice right away that many of the ingredients are
listed twice this is because the fries are fried twice in the same oil mixture once
before being frozen and shipped to restaurants and again before being served to customers and
fda rules require that both mixtures be listed separately eliminating these
repetitions reduces the list to a shorter but still eyebrow raising 14 items yet despite their
intimidating names that are also intimidating to pronounce for my small brain most of these
additives are simply meant to ensure the stringent location to location uniformity mcdonald's food is
famous for for example dextrose gives the fries their distinctive golden brown color sodium
acid pyrophosphate prevents discoloration during freezing citric acid and turts butyl hydroquinone
prevent the fries from oxidizing and turning gray and dimethylpolysuloxane as an anti-foaming agent
that prevents the frying oil from splattering but while these ingredients may raise some
eyebrows none have generated as much controversy as the last item on this list and if you remember
that was natural flavor and the source of this controversy well that's whether this seemingly
nondescript ingredient contains any beef beef has always been key to the distinctive flavor
of mcdonald's fries from the chain's founding in 1955 the potato sticks were fried in a mixture of
beef tallow known as formula 47 giving the fries their unique crispiness and subtle meaty taste
however all of this changed in 1990 thanks to a man named phil sokoloff after surviving a heart
attack sokolov became concerned about the amount of saturated fats in fast food and launched a 14
million ad campaign against mcdonald's and other chains aimed at pressurizing them into
changing their recipes apparently he had a lot of money to spare god damn eventually mcdonald's
caved and announced that it would no longer be cooking their fries in beef tallow switching
instead to a mixture of canola corn and soybean oil while intended as a means of improving the
healthiness of the mcdonald's menu the switch from tallow to vegetable oil convinced many that the
chain's fries were now vegetarian this attracted a whole new demographic of customers who had
previously shied away from the chain but then on april 9 2001 an article by vg sundaram appeared in
the newspaper india west titled where's the beef it's in your french fries in the article sundaram
tells the story of anand kulkarni and hittesh shah software engineers from los angeles who
regularly ate at mcdonald's kukani was a devout hindu and thus forbidden from eating beef while
shah was a follower of the jain dharma a hindu sect that opposes all forms of killing so extreme
is the subversion that certain devout jains refuse to wash any part of their bodies except for their
hands to avoid killing bacteria and they sweep the sidewalk before with a broom so as not to
step on any insects due to their religious beliefs the men's typical mcdonald's order consisted of
veggie burger a soda and an order of fries all of which were vegetarian or so they thought but then
shah read an article revealing that the supposedly vegetarian fries actually contained beef hidden
behind the innocuous ingredient label natural flavor enraged at being deceived into violating
his religious beliefs shah called mcdonald's customer service and demanded to know whether
the fries did indeed contain beef if so why this was not listed as an ingredient the mcdonald's
representative megan maggie replied that the fries did indeed contain a minuscule amount
of beef flavoring but this was not listed because fda regulations did not require the ingredients of
natural flavorings be broken down cinderella's article set off a storm of controversy especially
in india where 84 percent of the population is hindu violent protests erupted across the country
with protesters smashing restaurant windows and smearing statues of ronald mcdonald with cow dung
while nationalist politicians like prime minister atol bihari vajpayee called for the immediate
shutdown of mcdonald's 27 indian locations of the scandal shankar gankar of the ultranationalist
bajrang dal party stated they have betrayed the faith of millions of our countrymen by serving
food cooked in beef fat it is unpardonable if they don't close the outlets with immediate effect we
will be forced to take extreme steps meanwhile in early may harish bhati a hindu lawyer from seattle
launched a class-action lawsuit against mcdonald's quipping this they say billions and billions
served i say billions and billions deceived the suit was filed on behalf of law students
from george washington university fellow concerned hindus and secular vegetarian advocacy groups like
the vegetarian legal action network this group which represents nearly 15 million vegetarians
across the united states had previously petitioned mcdonald's to fully disclose its product's
ingredients but to no avail as james pizzerizo the founder stated corporate america needs to
pay attention to consumers who avoid certain food products for religious or health reasons or
because they have allergies they say that they are complying with the law in terms of disclosing
their ingredients but they should go beyond the law meanwhile the hindu case against mcdonald's
was passionately started by bridge sharma a seattle electrical engineer and one of the
defendants named in the class action suit i feel sick in the morning every day like i want to vomit
now it is always there in my mind that i have done this sin basi and his clients were soon joined by
six hindus from british columbia canada including harjinza keynes who claimed that a mcdonald's
employee assured him that the restaurant's fries were indeed vegetarian a second lawsuit against
mcdonald's canada was filed later that month in response mcdonald's canada denied ever claiming
that its fries were vegetarian stating in fact at mcdonald's canada we have always prepared our
french fries in a blend of beef and vegetable oil furthermore this information has always
been readily available to our canadian customers through our food facts brochure the lawsuit filed
in british columbia is totally misguided and based on completely unfounded and incorrect information
furthermore the parent company revealed that while beef flavoring was included in fries prepared in
north america these ingredients were emitted in markets like india with religious or moral
restrictions against eating beef and other meat products nonetheless in june of 2002 mcdonald's
agreed to pay out a 10 million settlement to the 11 named defendants and issue an apology it read
we regret we did not provide these customers with complete information and we sincerely apologize
for any hardship that these miscommunications have caused among hindus vegetarians and others
we should have done a better job in these areas and we're committed to doing a better job in the
future but do mcdonald's prize at least the ones served in north america actually contain beef well
it depends on how you define beef the natural flavoring used in mcdonald's fries is made by
hydrolyzing beef proteins into their constituent amino acids and adding various sugars and citric
acid producing a rich meaty umami flavor whether or not this actually counts as beef is thus a
matter of semantic and religious interpretation such ambiguity is common in the field of food
science for example the molecule which gives bananas their distinctive flavor is called
isoamyl acetate according to fda rules if this molecule is extracted from actual bananas then
the food manufacturers are allowed to refer to it as natural flavoring if however it is
synthesized from other chemicals it must be labeled as artificial flavoring even though
in both cases the molecule is exactly the same but while mcdonald's fries may in fact be vegetarian
one thing they're definitely not is vegan four including among the 14 official ingredients is
hydrolyzed milk the debacle over beef in fries would not be the last time mcdonald's faced the
wrath of indian hindus in august 2019 mcdonald's india announced on twitter that all restaurants
were now certified halal the code of animal slaughter and food preparation followed by
devout muslims once again violent protests erupted across the country with protesters inflicting
more than 60 thousand dollars in damage against mcdonald's property activists complained that
the move alienated the country's hindu majority and the mcdonald's should now offer meat prepared
according to jackta a hindu slaughtering method that involves beheading an animal in one stroke
as vishnu gupta president of the right-wing hindu center party stated mcdonald's can't force halal
meat upon a vast section of hindus who eat jakta their sensitivities can't be ignored
if mcdonald's can keep in consideration the sensitivities of a particular group why is
it ignoring the others if mcdonald's doesn't change its policy and start serving both halal
and jakta and its outlets across india sooner men will protest against the food chain on streets
however according to critics like activist shabam hashmi these protests had less to do with
mcdonald's itself and more to do with islamophobia and hindu nationalism with the restaurant chains
serving as ever as a lightning rod and convenient scapegoat for pre-existing tensions stating it
is an absolutely islamophobic atmosphere which is existing in india now and each and every occasion
is used by right-wing hindus to attack muslims it's the extreme right asserting themselves to
convert india into a hindu nation but such controversies are part and parcel of being a
giant multinational corporation mcdonald's will likely weather this storm as it has others and
continue serving burgers shakes and well yes fries to its billions and billions of customers around
the globe and now for a bonus fact while rioting and vandalizing restaurants over beef flavoring
and fries may seem like an extreme reaction beers of beef contamination once triggered a
nationwide uprising from the mid-1700s onward the british east india company and later the british
colonial government recruited large numbers of native indian troops known as sepoys to
police their colonial holdings over the next century resentment to british colonial rule
steadily grew among the indian population fueled by punitive taxes unfair economic policies and
other abuses this simmering tension finally came to a boil in may 1857 triggered by of all things
the issuing of a new pattern of rifle to the sea poise like previous smoothbore muskets the
patton 1853 enfield rifle was loaded from the muzzle using a paper cartridge consisting of a
bullet and gunpowder wrapped in a paper cylinder to load the rifle a soldier tore the cartridge
open with his teeth poured the powder down the barrel crumpled the paper around the bullet
and rammed both down the barrel with a ramrod unfortunately to help it slide down the barrel
the bullet for the 1853 enfield was greased with a mixture of beef and pork tallow meaning that
soldiers risked ingesting this grease every time they loaded the rifle this was abhorrent to hindu
enemies and troops alike and proved the lost straw for the disgruntled seboys on march 29 1857 sea
boys at barak por del carcata rose up against the british officers sparking a rebellion that quickly
spread across the sub-continent what followed was a brutal year-and-a-half long conflict that
resulted in the deaths of 6 000 british and 800 000 indian troops and civilians the dissolution
of the east india company and the consolidation of british colonial rule in india british
reprisals against the rebellious seaboys were infamously brutal with thousands being hanged or
strapped to the mouths of cannons and blown apart while generally referred to in the west as the
sepoy mutiny indian mutiny or indian rebellion the events of 1857 to 1858 are known in india as the
first war of independence and proved a watershed moment in british indian relations and the first
in a long line of rebellious acts that eventually resulted in india winning her independence
less than 100 years later so i really hope you found that video interesting if you did please
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