Is it true that Jamie Oliver managed to prove in court that McDonald’s products are unsuitable for humans?

In social networks, publications regularly appear that the famous chef was convinced by the court: dishes of the well-known fast food network consist of ingredients, the use of which is dangerous. We checked the reliability of this story.

According to posts in several large publics on VKontakte, Jamie Oliver not only won the court against McDonald’s, but also “discovered the terrible truth about what the delicious meat for hamburgers and nuggets is actually preparing.” If you believe such publications, then “meat for hamburgers,“ beig poppies ”and other“ goodies ”is prepared from washing beef fat, and is washed in the most ordinary ammonium hydroxide”, which will be paved to a person. These statements can be found, in particular, in public "Dookins", "Moral", "First vegetarian", "Ministry of Truth" and many others. "Sensation" did not bypass other social networks and a blog platform-it is mentioned by users Facebook, Twitter, Pikabu, "Yandex.Zen" and other portals.

To begin with, no court hearing, where Oliver and McDonald’s were the parties, never passed. In 2011, in one of the programs of the Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Program demonstratedAs from meat scraps and offal with the help of liquid ammonia, you can get “pink mucus” - from it, according to Oliver, are prepared by most meat dishes in the United States. Note that this episode can hardly be called criticism directly to McDonald’s - Oliver criticized the entire American power industry.

In early 2012, the leading American CBS television channel talked about the fact that McDonald’s decided to change the recipe for their burgers. This innovation is journalists Tied Just with the Oliver program, published a few months before. On the air, in particular, fragments from his show were shown, including the one where the chef says: "This is unsuitable for eating people." At the same time, as CBS specified on the air, the McDonald’s statement said in direct text that their decision "was not associated with any specific event." Moreover, in a commentary for Time magazine, representatives of the company at all They saidThat have been working on this reform since the beginning of 2011, that is, before the air of the Oliver show.

Doubts of the relationship between the Oliver program and the McDonald’s solution also arise because American legislation does not prohibit the use of ammonia solution during meat processing. AND US Department of Agriculture, And Office for sanitary supervision of the quality of food and medication (FDA) Even ten years after the episode in the show, the famous chef is considered “generally safe” with ammonia. True, at about the same time with McDonald’s from using this method Refused and other large fast food networks.

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Read on the topic:

1. Snopes. DID Jamie Oliver Prove McDonald’s Burgers are unfit for Human Consumption?
2. Africa Check. Chef Jamie Oliver Claimed McDonald’s Beef ‘Unfit for Human Consumption’ - But Vin LEGAL BATTLE WITH COMPANY