Inside: McDonalds

Did you know that McDonalds buys:
- 43 million pounds of tomatoes?
- 102 million pounds of lettuce?
- 231million pounds of cheese?
- 60 million pounds of apples?

a year.

While watching this documentary, I found it fascinating that there are more McDonald's employees than the amount of soldiers in the the Army, Marines and US Air Forces combined.  27 pounds in the past year by eating McDonalds every day.  I don't know why but I find that hard to believe.  He had a hard time listing the foods he ate and said he exercised with it.  I mean if it worked, then it worked.

The CEO, Don Thompson says that he hires employees because "we're about providing opportunity and can rise to the system to gain greater wealth"...whatever that means.  The journalist asked the CEO many questions about America's obesity problem and blaming it on McDonald's.  Don simply answered by saying that it's not the fault of fast food restaurant's but the choice of food that the customers pick to eat.  He said he lost

Don Thompson stated that he visits every company that produces the products that McDonald's uses.  He makes sure the products are fresh which include 100% ground beef and 100% white breast meat.  Hearing this and watching Super Size Me a few years ago seems to contradict my thoughts about the meat of McDonald's.  I saw that the Chicken McNuggets are made from processed, and different parts of the chicken and in this documentary they said the McNuggets were made from 100% white breast meat.  Even when I eat the nuggets from McDonald's, I can tell that it's not white breast meat.  The whole time the journalist was asking him questions about McDonald's, he was trying to make his fast food restaurant sound better than it actually is.

The documentary shows a scene at Hamburger University where the professors train student's to become successful CEO'S, managers and employees.  The student's that attend this university can get college credit for taking classes there.  They train on customer service, in and out restaurant training and situational  to prepare employees to work at fast food restaurants.  Over 300,00 students' have graduated from Hamburger University.

Even though this documentary was quite short, it was helpful and I found out a lot of information about McDonald's.  I still question the things that the CEO said about his restaurant.  Either way, comparing facts from this documentary and Fast Food Nation doesn't match up.  Fast food restaurants will always find a way to buy food for cheap to sell for cheap but use ingredients that aren't the healthiest for people.