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What's worse....a pack of Smokes or a Whopper Meal?

by Tryan Hartill

Recently I read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. Overall I’d recommend the book. The facts and figures are almost too much to digest in one reading. The conclusion in the end is is my view over the top. But 90% of it is just pure facts, of which only one has been disputed, the amount of cow waste generated per year was questioned by a farmer.

After reading this I got to thinking which is worse…. eating a Whopper Value Meal for lunch, or smoking a pack of cigs in a day.

After a little research this is actually a fairly tough comparison to make. One adds about 67 grams of total fat to your diet and some 1300 calories. While the other actually burns about 200 calories.

Both are said to kill 400,000+ Americans a year and while eating one Whopper Meal is not going to kill you, neither is one pack of cigs.

What’s in a Cig?

Nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide are the obvious ones, here are some of the others:

Acacia gum, Acetal, Acetanisole, Acetic acid and/or its potassium and sodium salts, Acetoin, Acetone, Acetophenone, 6 Acetoxydihydrotheaspirane, Acetyl methyl cellulose, 2 Acetyl pyrazine, 2 Acetyl pyridine, 3 Acetyl pyridine, Alga resinoid, Allspice extract, oleoresin and oil, Allspice leaf oil, Allura Red, Allyl hexanoate, Almond oil, Aluminium acetate, Aluminium carbonate, Aluminium citrate, Aluminium lactate, Aluminium oxide, Aluminium phosphate, Aluminium tartrate, Aluminium trihydroxide, Aluminosilicates, Amber oil, Ambergris extract, Ambrette seed oil and absolute, Ambrox, Ammonium acetate, Ammonium carbonate, Ammonium chloride, Ammonium citrate, Ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, Ammonium hydroxide, Ammonium lactate, Ammonium sulphate, Ammonium tartrate, +Amyl acetate, Amyl alcohol, +Amyl benzoate, +Amyl butyrate, alpha Amyl cinnamaldehyde, +Amyl formate, +Amyl hexanoate, +Amyl isovalerate, +Amyl octanoate, +Amyl phenylacetate, +Amyl salicylate, +Amyl valerate, trans Anethole, Angelica root extract and oil, Anise and oil, Anisole, para Anisyl acetate, para Anisyl alcohol, Arachis oil, Ascorbic acid, Azorubin, Balsam oil, Bay leaf, oil and sweet oil, Beech tar extract, Bentonite, Benzaldehyde, Benzoic acid and/or its potassium and sodium salts, Benzoin, Benzoin resinoid, Benzyl acetate, Benzyl alcohol, Benzyl benzoate, Benzyl butyrate, Benzyl cinnamate, Benzyl formate, Benzyl isobutyrate, Benzyl phenylacetate, Benzyl propionate, Bergamot oil, Boric acid and/or its potassium or sodium salts, Bornyl acetate, , *Brilliant Black BN, Brilliant Blue FCF, Butyl acetate, Butyl butyrate, 1,3, Butylene glycol, Butyl phenyl acetate, para tert Butyl pyridine, Butyric acid….

And that is just the “A’s and B’s”...more here for the full list.

What’s in a Whopper Meal?

  • 1320 Calories
  • 67 grams of total fat
  • 20.5 grams of saturated fat
  • 6 grams of trans fat
  • 115 mg of cholesterol
  • 2040 mg of sodium
  • 146 grams of carbs

There are also numerous other ingredients added to the beef, but the Federal Govmint does not require them to be public record.

So which do you think is worse?

Jul 16, 09:49 pm | Tryan Hartill
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1 On Aug 28, 06:54 pm, gary killpack wrote:

THE NEXT TIME I EAT A PUKED UP WHOPPER, IT WILL BE AS BAD A SECOND HAND SMOKE. HOWEVER UNTIL THEN, CIGS ARE CORPORATE SUICIDE AND MURDER. SO CIGS ARE BY FAR AND AWAY THE WORSE OF THE TWO.

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