Real Food Blog » Fast Food http://realfoodblog.com Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:33:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 An 11 Year Old Can Figure It Out http://realfoodblog.com/uncategorized/an-11-year-old-can-figure-it-out/ http://realfoodblog.com/uncategorized/an-11-year-old-can-figure-it-out/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:38:42 +0000 admin http://realfoodblog.com/?p=640 11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food — far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he outlines the case to green and localize food production.

]]> http://realfoodblog.com/uncategorized/an-11-year-old-can-figure-it-out/feed/ 0 There is Shit in the Soda http://realfoodblog.com/fast-food/there-is-shit-in-the-soda/ http://realfoodblog.com/fast-food/there-is-shit-in-the-soda/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:31:06 +0000 admin http://realfoodblog.com/?p=160 The soda machines found in fast food restaurants may be giving you more than you bargained for.  Many of them are delivering a sweet liquid contaminated with fecal bacteria.   Studies show that almost half of all soda dispensed from a sample of 30 machines in the Roanoke Valley Area of Virginia found significant amounts of coliform bacteria — a group of bacteria that indicates the possibility of fecal contamination.

In standard EPA tests of drinking water some bacteria in allowed.  One that is never allowed is Fecal Coliform.  Its not allowed in our drinking water but it is coming out of the soda machine at McDonalds!

Abstract of the Study.

Soda Fountains Squirt Fecal Bacteria, Study Finds (ABC News)

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