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Submissions: Food Truck Fantasy
Take a look at the GOOD community's deepest, darkest Food Truck Fantasies
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This Is How a Chicken Nugget Is Made (UPDATED)
Mechanically separated chicken is what you get when you grind an entire chicken through a sieve, soak it in ammonia, and add flavor artificially.
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McDonald's Hamburgers Don't Age
Things that are made from organic material age and decay, especially when they stop being alive. A piece of home-baked bread, say, left on your...
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Should Toys Be Banned From Fast Food Meals that Don't Meet Certain Nutritional Standards?
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Give Your Kid a Hamburger, or Give Your Kid Heroin
That's the message of this rather intense PSA. There may be more truth to it than simply an advertising gimmick.
Lifestyle
Fat Doesn't Mean Unhealthy: Obesity, Judgment, and Chicken McNuggets
Seventeen-year-old Stacey Irvine's Chicken McNuggets diet has driven her to the hospital. She's also (gasp!) thin.
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Radical Rutgers Professor Maps Toxic Ads, Then Buys Billboards to Publish Her Results
Naa Oyo A. Kwate counts fast-food outlets, alcohol ads, and immune system markers to analyze the impact of the urban environment on our health.
Lifestyle
America Has the Saltiest Fast Food in the World
American Chicken McNuggets are more than twice as salty as British ones.
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Does Banning Toys Make Fast Food Healthier?
With or without the promotional tie-in, most kids prefer french fries to apple slices.
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"Organic" Foods Pack on the Pounds
We often think organic means fewer calories, and that's why we should institute mandatory calorie counting.
Lifestyle
The Drive-Through Middle Class: The Surprising Link Between Income and Fast-Food Eating
Middle-class families are more likely to eat fast food frequently than the poorest Americans.
Lifestyle
Why Those Burgers Don't Rot, Decompose, or Molder Away
After a rigorous scientific test, the results are in. McDonald's burgers don't decay, but neither do home-made patties of freshly ground chuck steak.
Culture
GOOD Books: Factory Foods Exposed
For this week's GOOD Books, we're looking straight into the convoluted American food industry.
Lifestyle
Pig Love: How the Fast-Food Industry Is Making Pork More Humane
Mistreated porkers are increasingly finding some unusual allies—fast-food restaurants.
Design
Feed Your Food Cart Fetish
Responses to the design challenge of creating a "fast" food truck for the 21st century.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Panic In Aisle Five
Feedlots and chicken fried steak: James Reeves on the moral grey zone at the heart of his relationship with food.
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Why Fast Food is Not Saving You Time (nor Doing You Other Favors)
Forgot the microwave. It's time to take back the kitchen and break free from the shackles of ready-made food.
Lifestyle
Calling All Canadians, Help Explain the McLobster
What McLobsters, McRibs, McCrab, McArabia, and the McLaks say about the regionalization of the homogenous McDonald's fast food chain.
