Hamburger chef Jamie Oliver has just won a battle against one of the largest fast food chains

[tkmorris]

10. Some are being rather harsh, but...

I tend to agree that the post is problematic.

1) It's an old story. Over a year and a half actually.

2) It's a very biased look at what happened. I don't think Jamie Oliver had anything to do with any changes in McDonald's recipes. He seems to be a flibbertigibbet who makes noise then takes credit for things that have nothing to do with him.

3) You provided a better link, so that's good, but it does confirm that this "story" is quite dated.

4) The science is bad. I'm not terribly fond of over processed foods of any kind but this article is written to make it sound like a horribly disgusting and unsafe practice, much like the orange juice stories of recent memory, when in fact it's all fairly standard. If you're going to complain about food production using such methods you need to apply such criticisms fairly. There are similar foods all through your local supermarket; fast food chains are not particularly egregious in their practices. Furthermore changing these sorts of food production techniques may be a good idea but it WILL raise costs dramatically across the board, resulting in less affordable food and in many cases complete non-availibility of certain items.

I am all in favor of having a discussion about reforming some of our worst food production issues, but it seems impossible to have a balanced discussion that starts with such a horribly one-sided article.