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have much clout or get much attention tallow (used to blanch the fries) to a change out the oil until the french fries
nationally (unless you’re talking about trans-free concoction of three polyun- are brown and taste like, well, rancid
oil!), especially with respect saturated oils. This will now bring them french fries.
to agriculture. My aspiration About a year ago I
to make 100 percent of my was visiting the Toronto Ea-
living from the farm here in ton Center in New York. On
Alaska has been scoffed at. average 750,000 people visit
Local farmers tell me I’m this mall every day. In the
crazy. However, we have south end is a fast food area
ignored these remarks and with a New York Fries outlet.
plowed on, determined to Out of curiosity I approached
make it work. a fellow who looked like the
The work you are doing store owner working in this
is so much more important NYF, and he was quick to tell

than just “I want to sell me that the “light avor” of
milk.” It is a most basic of their fries was from a change

freedoms, the foundation to sunower oil only. When I
of all our other freedoms, asked him if he changed the
to be able to feed ourselves oil out each day, he looked
and our families according at me in shock and said that
to our own convictions. If I must be crazy as they only
change out the oil every four
we are not allowed to do days!
this are there any other Has anyone ever g-

freedoms that really matter? ured out the quantity of free
Thank you, your whole staff radicals boiling away in the bottom of
and the Legal Defense Fund again so in line with US practices. those fryers? Having been to hundreds
much! McDonald’s and its competitors of grand openings at McDonald’s, I can
clean the oil each night by passing it attest to the fact that their McNuggets

Matt Shaul through a large paper lter dusted with and fries are absolutely fabulous when
Cranberry Ridge Farm, Alaska baking soda to eliminate the rancid they make the rst batch in the fryers.

avor. Newer, deep fryers are now self After that, they never taste the same

Unfortunately, the Alaska bill to legalize cleaning with a built-in lower drawer. even when they change out the oil. If
raw milk sales was defeated this year; The oil is kept in the unit for at least I do have a hankering for such foods,
but Alaskan raw milk activists can al- three days and is topped up regularly. I now ask them which day they last
ways try again next year. Most, if not all, of the McDonald’s changed out the oil. Considering they
owners are millionaires and, believe it do $3000 an hour in sales, that’s a lot
BOILED IN OIL or not, they are personally very health of boiled oil! I would never visit such a
As you have reported, recently the conscious, many being  tness buffs. place on a Sunday evening.
Ontario government called for a ban on Few eat their own food. One would think that with the mil-
trans fats. At the same time, however, I am more afraid of the small family lions of dollars invested in hopeless
McDonald’s has initiated a changeover stores—I know because I grew up in food items like McRib and Pizza’s (here
of its french fry shortening from beef the restaurant business—which never in Canada), they would be the rst to

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