“The Happy Meal Project” gets worldwide backlash

(Photo from Sally Davies Flickr account)

A globally renowned fast food chain is receiving a worldwide backlash.

McDonald’s is known all over the world. The popular fast food chain is also venerable for its advocacies and its sponsorships for massive activities such as Olympics.

Though McDonald’s is a big corporation, it is not exempted to criticisms.

Recently, a New York-based photographer Sally Davies discovered that a McDo’s burger and French fries resists decomposition after 180 days. (See Sally's photos from Flickr) 

Sally was, according to stories published on the web, dared to prove her friend wrong, who believes that a burger would mold or rot after two or three days of being left on a counter.

The project, which Sally called as “The Happy Meal Project”, gave results that ignited discussions over the web whether to believe Sally’s project or not.

But the McDonald’s corporation abruptly cleared the issue. An email was sent to Yahoo! news blog The Upshot to clarify the alleged resistance of McDonald’s happy meal to decomposition. 

"McDonald's hamburger patties in the United States are made with 100% USDA-inspected ground beef," Riley wrote. "Our hamburgers are cooked and prepared with salt, pepper and nothing else -- no preservatives, no fillers. Our hamburger buns are baked locally, are made from North American-grown wheat flour and include common government-approved ingredients designed to assure food quality and safety. ... According to Dr. Michael Doyle, Director, Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, 'From a scientific perspective, I can safely say that the way McDonald's hamburgers are freshly processed, no hamburger would look like this after one year unless it was tampered with or held frozen.’” 

All Happy Meal lovers are afraid this issue is true.

Nonetheless, the rumor is still flimsy to prevent millions of people from queuing on a counter for a Happy Meal. In the first place, if this is true, this could have surfaced a long time ago directly from a worker (or someone behind the manufacturing process), and testify about the truth behind the Happy Meal.