I just finished reading ‘Don’t Eat This Book’ by Morgan Spurlock (the guy who did Supersize Me http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=98 ) . I will NEVER eat fast food again.

It is truly scary what food processors do to our food and what they do to it again to make it palatable.

Of course, McDonalds tries to down play Spurlock’s ‘prank’ by criticizing that he ate 5,000 calories per day and did not exercise. The problem with that logic is that there are people who do the same thing.

According to Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food nation, his research indicates that in 2001 there were about 30,000 McDonalds and says they open about 2,000 a year. So that means there are probably more like 47,000 McDonalds today.in the U.S.

I only know of one McDonald's store that was torn down and replaced. It's near the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee campus. They tore down an IHOP and built a Qdoba then tore down the McDonalds and built a Noodles & Company. What surprises me about this is that the host site apparently is located in Iceland.