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Default Would you care if Big Macs were made in China?

Mark Probert wrote:
>
> On Dec 10, 4:26 pm, bulka > wrote:
> > On Dec 10, 4:02 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> >
> > > John Doe wrote:

> >
> > > > Would people who eat (and feed their kids) junk food from places like
> > > > McDonald's care if the ingredients were slopped together with Chinese
> > > > slave labor?

> >
> > > > Just curious.

> >
> > > I last ate a McDonald's hamburger sometime around 1978.
> > > They could use prisoners to make them, as far as I care.
> > > Both for labor and for meat.

> >
> > "For labor and for meat" Nice.
> >
> > McD customers buy chineese crap at walmart to save a nickle. If I
> > were the type to eat from a drive-thu window, and could get it for a
> > quarter cheaper, I probably wouldn't care if it were made of chineese
> > soylent green, shipped over in invasive barnacle infested tankers.
> >
> > But, I'm not. I'll eat at a Mom amd Pop diner with roaches crawling
> > on the grill before I'll go to a franchise with cartoon toys as part
> > of the meal.

>
> Silly, you are not supposed to eat the toys.


Why not? They're better than the food.