Heads Up!A family in Virginia uncovered a foul find in their box of fast-food chicken wings: a fried chicken’s head with the beak and eyes intact. But, hey, according to the local health inspector, there’s nothing wrong with eating fried chicken heads. “Even the beak will simply crunch apart in your mouth.” Yum! Another family, in Canada, received an unusual topping on their daughter’s burger: a rat’s severed head—”complete with eyes, teeth, nose, and whiskers.” What’s next, mouse-head milkshakes?Want Bugs With That?
A fast-food customer in the United Kingdom got a stomach-turning surprise when she found a caterpillar crawling around on her chicken sandwich. Back in the states, a family was chowing down on a bucket of chicken parts when one of the daughters asked, “Mommy, what’s that crawling out of your mouth?” Answer: a maggot! After checking out their corpse cuisine, the family discovered maggots crawling all over it.Is the Burger Boy Trying to Kill You?This may sound like an urban myth, but it’s no “Whopper.” A burger-flipper in New York state admitted that he had sprayed oven cleaner on two beef patties that were broiled and served to a customer—who ate them and became sick. Burger Boy also said that another employee had taken a patty into the potty with her, then returned and said she had peed on it.
Ready for the really gross part?Peed-on patties and chicken covered with creepy-crawlers aren’t much worse than standard fast-food fare. Did you know that today’s poultry slaughterhouses are so disgusting, one former U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist says that the “final product is no different than if you stuck it in the toilet and ate it”?
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You don’t need a dose of oven cleaner to get sick from meat: Every year, millions of Americans become seriously ill, and thousands die, from eating animal foods contaminated with salmonella, E. coli, and other bacteria.
But what’ll really make you retch is the hearty serving of animal cruelty in every burger and chicken sandwich. On a typical factory farm, animals spend their entire lives confined to cramped stalls barely bigger than their own bodies; many go lame from lack of exercise or suffer from chronic respiratory diseases and bacterial infections. Most never see daylight or breathe fresh air until being shipped to the slaughterhouse—where animals are routinely trampled and dragged, hung up on chains, and dismembered—all while fully conscious.
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