Another food science story is making it's way around the health conscious community claiming that Subway's oven roasted chicken is only 50% chicken, the rest being GMO soy.
With soy becoming a savior for many food distributors and suppliers because of its versatility and extremely low cost, this is a major problem for a lot of individuals who are aware of the health problems that GMO soy is responsible for.
In 1994 the first genetically modified soybean was introduced to the U.S. market, by Monsanto. In 2014, 90.7 million hectares of Genetically modified soy were planted worldwide, 82% of the total soy cultivation area. Most GE food grown in the U.S. is “Roundup Ready,” meaning it can withstand spraying of Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide and live, while weeds around it die. Research links GMOs to allergies, organ toxicity, and other health issues, though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not require safety testing for GMOs.
Using common sense, eating something that resists toxic chemicals that are found in Roundup as well as the lack of insects eating the soy should be a red flag for people. As a general rule of thumb, never eat something that insects won't touch, this is most likely a sign your food has been sprayed with pesticides or other chemicals.
The lab tests at Trent University’s Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory says it tested "meat" from five major fast food.
These products were:
– McDonald’s Country Chicken – Grilled
– Wendy’s Grilled Chicken Sandwich
– A&W Chicken Grill Deluxe
– Tim Hortons Chipotle Chicken Grilled Wrap
– Subway Oven Roasted Chicken Sandwich
– Subway Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki (chicken strips)
According to the CBC story, most of the tests show the items to be around 100% real meat. This was not the case for Subway's meats with the over roasted chicken scoring a 53.6 percent chicken DNA and the chicken strips coming in at 42.8 percent chicken DNA. The majority of the remaining percentages was soy.
Of course Subway has come out and denied these allegations. Subway has had a long history of food safety problems such as the investigation into the fast food chains use of azodicarbonamide which derived from its original substance urethane, a recognized carcinogen. These chemicals that were discovered in the chains bread in 2014 are also found in many yoga mats and other plastic based products.
Because Subway is claiming their supplier of chicken is using 100% real chicken but has yet to provide any in house DNA test, we can clearly see that somebody is lying.
Whether Subway is willingly deceiving the public to reduce their expenses or their supplier is not being honest with them, we still have to hold Subway accountable for the food they are selling to people. It would be easy for Subway to shut this whole story down if they were to immediately test its own ingredients to counter these allegations. At the end of the day, people need to be aware at the sheer lack of food safety and accountability surrounding the fast food industry, especially in the United States.
