http://linkfilter.net Daily fresh links en-us http://linkfilter.net/images/newbutton.jpg http://linkfilter.net/ http://linkfilter.net/?id=141149 In 1996, Karen Hanrahan, a wellness educator and nutritional consultant from Illinois, bought a plain McDonald’s hamburger but did not eat it. “I took the bun and the meat, arranged the pieces on a plate, and stored it in a cupboard,” she says. A friend had told her that someone else had tried a similar experiment, to see if the burger would decompose. “I was curious and wanted to try it.”     Hanrahan, who supports organic and natural eating, uses the now twelve-year-old burger as a prop in her Healthy Choices for Children workshop, which shows parents how to explore alternative food options, buy organic food, avoid food additives and preservatives, and plan menus for the family. Kids call Hanrahan the Burger Lady, friends call her Mother Earth, and her own children, neither of whom enjoy McDonald’s, consider her a hero. Search linkfilter links q http://linkfilter.net/