{"id":1473770,"date":"2024-06-27T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1473770"},"modified":"2024-06-27T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:45:00","slug":"mcdonalds-admits-customers-reject-fake-meat-burgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/mcdonalds-admits-customers-reject-fake-meat-burgers\/1473770\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s Admits Customers Reject Fake Meat Burgers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">McDonald&#8217;s Admits Customers Reject Fake Meat Burgers\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Americans are\u00a0rejecting a\u00a0plant-based future full of\u00a0disgusting\u00a0and possibly even toxic fake\u00a0burgers and\u00a0sausages. Folks simply want\u00a0organic grass-fed beef (like how some small farmers and the Amish do)\u00a0and are quickly realizing to stay as far away as possible from\u00a0factory-farmed-vaccinated cows.<\/p>\n<p>The latest sign that the tide is shifting against billionaires like Bill Gates, who advocate for a reset of the food supply chain by ushering in &#8216;sustainable&#8217; insect burgers and plant-based meat and also push to ban cow farts, comes from McDonald&#8217;s US President Joe Erlinger.<\/p>\n<p>At the WSJ Global Food Forum in Chicago on Wednesday, Erlinger admitted the fast-food chain&#8217;s plant-based burger tests across\u00a0San Francisco and Dallas markets ended in a major failure.<\/p>\n<p>At the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago, he said McDonald&#8217;s customers aren&#8217;t looking for &#8220;McPlant or other plant-based proteins from McDonald&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Meat, which partnered with McDonald&#8217;s to sell fake patties, saw its shares drop as much as 5% after the comments hit Bloomberg Terminal. The stock is trading near a record low on dismal fake meat demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Snag_4ae9a74f.png?itok=x6cIyCmL\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just weeks ago, new research was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/beyond-bad-fake-meat-and-other-ultra-processed-vegan-food-linked-heart-disease-early-death\">published<\/a> in\u00a0<em>The Lancet<\/em> from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo and Imperial College London that showed\u00a0ultra-processed vegan food can increase the risk of heart disease\u00a0and early death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/oh_5.jpg?itok=ypvdEP-y\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, USDA data shows that ground beef prices at supermarkets average $5.2 per pound. Prices are soaring in response to the nation&#8217;s herd size <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/rancher-record-high-beef-prices-may-be-new-norm\">collapsing to multi-decade lows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Snag_4ae8b194.png?itok=2tvmWd7d\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s refreshing to see\u00a0McDonald&#8217;s customers push back against the plant-based\u00a0agenda pushed by billionaires like Gates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some believe Americans should support their local food supply chains by ditching Walmart or big chain grocery stores and buying meat and produce from local farms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 06\/27\/2024 &#8211; 07:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/mcdonalds-admits-customers-reject-fake-meat-burgers\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/mcdonalds-admits-customers-reject-fake-meat-burgers<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s Admits Customers Reject Fake Meat Burgers\u00a0 Americans are\u00a0rejecting a\u00a0plant-based future full of\u00a0disgusting\u00a0and possibly even toxic fake\u00a0burgers and\u00a0sausages. Folks simply want\u00a0organic grass-fed beef (like how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1473771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1473771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}