How Richard Stallman watches movies.

For the sarcasm-challenged, I am being sarcastic, and I have no idea what she meant to say.

In itself it’s an interesting experiment, but she hasn’t kept anything else as comparison. However, reading her ‘bio’ started to creep me out:

My name is Karen Hanrahan. Many of my friends call me Mother Earth…you can too if you like.

No. That’s just creepy new age hippyism at it’s worst.

Anyway, back to McDonald’s. This reproduction of a 1995 McDonald’s Nutrition Information book claims that every burger patty is 100% beef, with no additives, fillers, binders, preservatives or flavour enhancers. That implies that the burger that Mother Earth Karen Hanrahan has in her little box has been preserved due to it’s natural high-fat and -salt content. Ms Hanrahan hasn’t provided any scientific analysis of this burger showing that it contains preservatives, nor does she have any other item for comparison that she has stored in the same conditions.

Need I point out that there are many natural conditions under which organic matter is finely preserved for thousands of years? Heck, even the holy sandwich needed no special treatment to survive. And before we had fridges, meat would be cured in order to store it for long periods of time.

Now, I’m not an apologist for McDonald’s, but producing a photo of a burger and claiming it’s from 1996 is just self-advertising.