According to a recent study published in the Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, fast food companies may have crossed certain health limits while trying to make the food tastier. The fast food industry happens to be a market which does deals in millions. That is why it requires factory farming which results in killing thousands of animals for meat every hour. According to Exposing The Truth, there is every possibility that the fast food companies are vulnerable to making mistakes due to such huge demands.

The study did a review of eight different yet popular brands of hamburger. The testing methodology used in the review was histologic as it was discovered that each hamburger contained only about 2.1 to 14.8 per cent meat content. In addition to that, it was revealed that each of those burgers contained blood vessels, plant material, connective tissue, bone, adipose tissue, peripheral nerve material and cartilage. All these ingredients do not offer much nutritional value to the food.

The study further reveals that those burgers also contained Sarcocystis which is an intracellular parasite. An animal gets infected with Sarcocystis when it consumes food contaminated with the infected faeces of another animal. This result exposes the unsanitary and harsh conditions which are often involved in factory farming.

Even though we have the presumption that we consume meat with these burgers, the reality gives a different point of view. Most of these burgers are mainly made of water (37.7 per cent to 62.4 per cent), while an average of 12 per cent meat content is found in those burgers. However, only a couple of hamburgers were infected with Sarcocystis, while there was no brain tissue found in any of the samples.

The recent study is supported by numerous other research results which suggest the unhealthy nature of fast food. It has been suggested earlier that certain fast food products are made of pink slime and even horse meat. The manner the animals are treated in factory farming also shows that they can easily be affected by any kind of harmful viruses.