7 Things McDonald's Really Wants You to Forget

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http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/7-things-mcdonalds-really-wants-you-forget

1. McCruelty to Animals

Because McDonald's is the largest purchaser of beef and pork in the U.S and the second-largest purchaser of chicken, it perpetuates the horrors of factory farming and is also in a position to reform them. One-fourth of all breakfasts eaten in restaurants in the U.S., for example, come from McDonald's. Following the launch of PETA's original McCruelty campaign in 2000, "McDonald's made some basic animal welfare improvements," says the animal rights group but, "Since that time, the company has refused to eliminate the worst abuses that its chickens suffer, including abuses during slaughter.''


2. "McLibel" Campaign Wins a Moral Victory

Way back in 1986, Helen Steel, Dave Morris and other activists distributed a six-sided fact sheet called "What's Wrong With McDonald's? —Everything they don't want you to know.'

3. McDonald's Attacked Overseas

McDonald's was arguably the first U.S. food enterprise to globalize and at its 35,000-plus global locations Big Macs and fries usually transcend individual cultures and languages. But not everywhere. In 1999, French food activist and farmer José Bové led a protest in which nine trucks, driven by other farmers, destroyed a half-built McDonald's restaurant in Millau, France. According to the BBC, other farmers "filled a McDonald’s branch with apples [and] another with chickens, geese, turkeys and ducks." Bové said the struggle was "between two ways of farming and eating, between real food from real farmers and industrial agriculture under corporate control" and U.S. trade protectionism. He was incarcerated for three months.

4. Documentaries like Super-Size Me and Food, Inc.

What if you ate nothing but McDonald's three times a day for a month and tried everything on the menu? It was the premise of a funny yet shocking 2004 movie, Super-Size Me, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock. One of the movie's first shockers was a group of children Spurlock interviews who do not recognize photos of U.S. presidents but do recognize Ronald McDonald.

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1. Kick

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2. McDonalds is vile

I try really hard not to eat there.
I only do if it's the last resort. Don't think I've been in over a year. I hope that streak continues.