Thinking Outside "The Box"

I have issues with boxed food. We all should. Next time you eat a meal ask yourself if you know where it came from? 

I've gotten two leads (haha I'm such a journalist) from my sister-in-law today that have been great! She is reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History Of Four Meals", by Michael Pollan. I haven't read this book yet so I'm not endorsing it one way or the other but she read me an excerpt from it regarding McDonalds and their chicken mcnuggets. Just so y'all know, McDonalds chicken mcnuggets have 38 ingredients in them. 38! That blows my mind. That's not even including the fact that the actual chicken itself (if there is any in there) has most likely been stripped of any nutritional value and pumped full of hormones and steroids and who knows what else?!  I will get the actual quote from the book later because he goes into detail about some of the 38 ingredients at least 1 of which is a known carcinogen. I'M LOVIN' IT! 

The other tidbit I received from sister-in-law was this link which has more information on the hot dog issue. www.preventcancer.com/consumers/food/hotdogs.htm