Chick-Fil-A is using peanut oil with dimethylpolysiloxane (main ingredient in Silly Putty) in 15 of their menu items and they need to remove it NOW.

While I am sure this peanut oil is cheap and increases margin, there are many other options available to you to create a delicious sandwich. The alternatives are abundant and one that is not potentially harmful to consumers health needs to be used.

Dimethylpolysiloxane is a non-biodegradable synthetic substance that, although has no conclusive research proving serious danger to human health, lacks much research at all. It's the main ingredient in Silly Putty, hence the nickname. This ingredient does NOT have conclusive evidence showing its safety OR danger. The FDA also allows up to 1% of dimethylpolysiloxane to be made of formaldehyde. That is unacceptable considering what we know about formaldehyde.

Would you let your family eat just a LITTLE bit of poison? I mean, it's just a little, right?

If studies have not been able to say decisively, that an ingredient is completely safe - why allow it to be used in our country's food?

I believe it is important to note, the FDA also allows ingredients like polyoxypropylene glycol FORMALDEHYDE (proven flammable and cancer causing)  and BHA/BHT (banned in UK, Japan and most European countries for its dangers). Which are both ingredients with studies supporting their danger in human consumption. So to me, it's pretty tough to trust the FDA with everything they approve and claim is "generally recognized as safe".

Chick-Fil-A is currently offering 15 different menu items containing dimethylpolysiloxane and 2 of them are listed on the kids menu targeting your children! I am sure their food will be just as good without it.

• Waffle Fries 
• Chicken Sandwich
• Deluxe Chicken Sandwich
• Biscuit Sandwich
• Chicken Minis
• Chicken Egg and Cheese Bagel
• Cobb Salad
• Crispy Nuggets
• Crispy Strips
• Hash Brown Scramble Burrito 
• Hash Brown Scramble Bowl
• Chicken Strip Kids Meal
• Chicken Nugget Kids Meal
• Spicy Chicken Sandwich 
• Deluxe Spicy Chicken Sandwich

Per stoppoisoningus.org... Dangers of Dimethylpolysiloxane

• PDMS, under high temperature conditions, is known to degrade into compounds that include formaldehyde. This later element, often used for embalming, is a very dangerous carcinogen.
• Comparisons of American entree ingredient lists from popular fast food restaurants with that of the equivalent entree in a U.K. restaurant show that PDMS is more commonly found in American fast food restaurants than in overseas counterparts of the same entree. Do fast food consumers in the U.K. like their fries extra foamy? Or is PDMS simply an unnecessary ingredient added in American fast food joints to cut corners and cut costs?
• In the past, PDMS was put into use as a fluid to fill breast implants. However, after receiving the “safety concern” label, the practice of using the chemical in the production of breast implants has gone down dramatically. But why hasn’t the fast-food industry caught up?
• The FDA listed Dimethylpolysiloxane as a “substance generally recognized as safe in food” in (Sec. 176.200). In this document, defoaming agents are to be used under the pretense that: "The quantity of defoaming agent or agents used shall not exceed the amount required to accomplish the intended effect, which is to prevent or control the formation of foam."
  This generic limitation allows for virtually free use of this synthetic chemical in food.

Listen, I want to be able to eat Chick-Fil-A too. I just know that we all deserve to eat food that doesn't contain ingredients like this. There are many other oils, even peanut oils, that do not contain this ingredient. 

Remember the yoga mat ingredient in Subway bread? Well they removed that after a petition just like this. Sign today and be part of the change!

Chick-Fil-A isn't the only company that uses this ingredient too. Many other fast-food chains are guilty too. Chick-Fil-A is the third largest fast-food chain in America and them making this change can be the catalyst in removing this ingredient from all menus.

Links

https://stoppoisoningus.org/dimethylpolysiloxane/

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/food-additive-status-list

http://tarek.kakhia.org/books_eng/Defoamer.Tarek_Kakhia.pdf

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=218&tid=39

https://www.epa.gov/formaldehyde/facts-about-formaldehyde

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/substances/formaldehyde/formaldehyde-fact-sheet

https://www.chick-fil-a.com/#entrées