On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:38:31 -0600, Alan Moorman >
wrote:

>On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:45:46 +0000, Martin Willett
> wrote:
>
>>Why do people think that certain companies and individuals can be
>>ruthlessly attacked at every turn?
>>
>>Is there only one capitalist company in the world today that sells food?
>>McDonald's is constantly attacked for everything they do as if they were
>>deliberately trying to destroy the planet, pauper their employees and
>>poison their customers.

They are one of the biggest companies in the world involved in factory
farming animals, and consequently damaging our planet in doing so,
whilst proclaiming to be holier than thou!

>>It cannot simply be tall poppy syndrome, that any successful company
>>will attract people willing to attack it shamelessly at every
>>opportunity and for every single decision it makes.
>
>You just answered your own question.
>
>It IS the "tall poppy syndrome."
>
>It's that simple.
>

Putting the record straight is not a crime!

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/082800-02.htm

http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/

They are also turning society in a world of tubbies.
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