lots of things are Wrong with McDonald's
thats why i eat at a a burger restaurant thats by supporting the use
of fresh ingredients, local ranchers and farmers and sustainable
business practices.
# Purchase 100% local wind power
# Recycle our trans fat free Canola oil into biodiesel
#menu has cage-free eggs
but it is only in portland oregon great food the corp is good to thhe
people who work there.










































































Gareth wrote:
> 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.
> >>
> >>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.
> >
> >
> >Alan
> >
> >==
> >
> >It's not that I think stupidity should be punishable by death.
> > I just think we should take the warning labels off of everything
> >and let the problem take care of itself.
> >
>
> Try this.
>
> This leaflet is asking you to think for a moment about what lies
> behind McDonald's clean, bright image. It's got a lot to hide.
> "At McDonald's we've got time for you" goes the jingle. Why then do
> they design the service so that you're in and out as soon as possible?
> Why is it so difficult to relax in a McDonald's? Why do you feel
> hungry again so soon after eating a Big Mac?
>
> We're all subject to the pressures of stupid advertising, consumerist
> hype and the fast pace of big city life - but it doesn't take any
> special intelligence to start asking questions about McDonald's and to
> realise that something is seriously wrong.
>
> The more you find out about McDonald's processed food, the less
> attractive it becomes, as this leaflet will show. The truth about
> hamburgers is enough to put you off them for life.
>
>
>
>
>
> What's the connection between McDonald's and starvation in the 'Third
> World'?
>
> THERE's no point in feeling guilty about eating while watching
> starving African children on TV. If you do send money to Band Aid, or
> shop at Oxfam, etc., that's morally good but politically useless. It
> shifts the blame from governments and doesnothing to challenge the
> power of multinational corporations.
> HUNGRY FOR DOLLARS
>
>
> McDonald's is one of several giant corporations with investments in
> vast tracts of land in poor countries, sold to them by the
> dollar-hungry rulers (often military) and privileged elites, evicting
> the small farmers that live there growing food fortheir own people.
> The power of the US dollar means that in order to buy technology and
> manufactured goods, poor countries are trapped into producing more and
> more food for export to the States. Out of 40 of the world's poorest
> countries, 36 export food to the USA - thewealthiest.
>
> ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM
>
>
> Some 'Third World' countries, where most children are undernourished,
> are actually exporting their staple crops as animal feed - i.e. to
> fatten cattle for turning into burgers in the 'First World'. Millions
> of acres of the best farmland in poor contries are being used for our
> benefit - for tea, coffee, tobacco, etc. - while people there are
> starving. McDonald's is directly involved in this economic
> imperialism, which keeps most black people poor and hungry while many
> whites grow fat.
>
>
>
> A typical image of 'Third World' poverty - the kind often used by
> charities to get 'compassion money'. This diverts attention from one
> cause: exploitation by multinationals like McDonald's.
> GROSS MISUSE OF RESOURCES
> GRAIN is fed to cattle in South American countries to produce the meat
> in McDonald's hamburgers. Cattle consume 10 times the amount of grain
> and soy that humans do: one calorie of beef demands ten calories of
> grain. Of the 145 million tons of grain and so fed to livestock, only
> 21 million tons of meat and by-products are used. The waste is 124
> million tons per year at a value of 20 billion US dollars. It has been
> calculated that this sum would feed, clothe and house the world's
> entire population fo one year.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> FIFTY ACRES EVERY MINUTE
> EVERY year an area of rainforest the size of Britain is cut down or
> defoliated, and burnt. Globally, one billion people depend on water
> flowing from these forests, which soak up rain and release it
> gradually. The disaster in Ethiopia and Sudan is at leastpartly due to
> uncontrolled deforestation. In Amazonia - where there are now about
> 100,000 beef ranches - torrential rains sweep down through the
> treeless valleys, eroding the land and washing away the soil. The bare
> earth, baked by the tropical sun, becoms useless for agriculture. It
> has been estimated that this destruction causes at least one species
> of animal, plant or insect to become extinct every few hours.
>
>
>
> Why is it wrong for McDonald's to destroy rainforests?
>
> AROUND the Equator there is a lush green belt of incredibly beautiful
> tropical forest, untouched by human development for one hundred
> million years, supporting about half of all Earth's life-forms,
> including some 30,000 plant species, and producing a ajor part of the
> planet's crucial supply of oxygen.
> PET FOOD & LITTER
>
>
> McDonald's and Burger King are two of the many US corporations using
> lethal poisons to destroy vast areas of Central American rainforest to
> create grazing pastures for cattle to be sent back to the States as
> burgers and pet food, and to provide fat-food packaging materials.
> (Don't be fooled by McDonald's saying they use recycled paper: only a
> tiny per cent of it is. The truth is it takes 800 square miles of
> forest just to keep them supplied with paper for one year. Tons of
> this end up litteing the cities of 'developed' countries.)
> COLONIAL INVASION
>
>
> Not only are McDonald's and many other corporations contributing to a
> major ecological catastrophe, they are forcing the tribal peoples in
> the rainforests off their ancestral territories where they have lived
> peacefully, without damaging their envronment, for thousands of years.
> This is a typical example of the arrogance and viciousness of
> multinational companies in their endless search for more and more
> profit.
> It's no exaggeration to say that when you bite into a Big Mac, you're
> helping the McDonald's empire to wreck this planet.
>
>
> What's so unhealthy about McDonald's food?
>
> McDONALD's try to show in their "Nutrition Guide" (which is full of
> impressive-looking but really quite irrelevant facts & figures) that
> mass-produced hamburgers, chips, colas, milkshakes, etc., are a useful
> and nutritious part of any diet.
> What they don't make clear is that a diet high in fat, sugar, animal
> products and salt (sodium), and low in fibre, vitamins and minerals -
> which describes an average McDonald's meal - is linked with cancers of
> the breast and bowel, and heart disease. Thisis accepted medical fact,
> not a cranky theory. Every year in Britain, heart disease alone causes
> about 180,000 deaths.
>
> FAST = JUNK
>
>
> Even if they like eating them, most people recognise that processed
> burgers and synthetic chips, served up in paper and plastic
> containers, is junk-food. McDonald's prefer the name "fast-food". This
> is not just because it is manufactured and serve up as quickly as
> possible - it has to be eaten quickly too. It's sign of the
> junk-quality of Big Macs that people actually hold competitions to see
> who can eat one in the shortest time.
> PAYING FOR THE HABIT
>
>
> Chewing is essential for good health, as it promotes the flow of
> digestive juices which break down the food and send nutrients into the
> blood. McDonald's food is so lacking in bulk it is hardly possible to
> chew it. Even their own figures show thata "quarter-pounder" is 48%
> water. This sort of fake food encourages over-eating, and the high
> sugar and sodium content can make people develop a kind of addiction -
> a 'craving'. That means more profit for McDonald's, but constipation,
> clogged arteries andheart attacks for many customers.
> GETTING THE CHEMISTRY RIGHT
> McDONALD's stripey staff uniforms, flashy lighting, bright plastic
> decor, "Happy Hats" and muzak, are all part of the gimmicky
> dressing-up of low-quality food which has been designed down to the
> last detail to look and feel and taste exactly the sae in any outlet
> anywhere in the world. To achieve this artificial conformity,
> McDonald's require that their "fresh lettuce leaf", for example, is
> treated with twelve different chemicals just to keep it the right
> colour at the right crispness for th right length of time. It might as
> well be a bit of plastic.
>
>
>
> How do McDonald's deliberately exploit children?
>
> NEARLY all McDonald's advertising is aimed at children. Although the
> Ronald McDonald 'personality' is not as popular as their market
> researchers expected (probably because it is totally unoriginal),
> thousands of young children now think of burgers andchips every time
> they see a clown with orange hair.
> THE NORMALITY TRAP
>
>
> No parent needs to be told how difficult it is to distract a child
> from insisting on a certain type of food or treat. Advertisements
> portraying McDonald's as a happy, circus-like place where burgers and
> chips are provided for everybody at any hourof the day (and late at
> night), traps children into thinking they aren't 'normal' if they
> don't go there too. Appetite, necessity and - above all - money, never
> enter the "innocent" world of Ronald McDonald.
> Few children are slow to spot the gaudy red and yellow standardised
> frontages in shopping centres and high streets throughout the country.
> McDonald's know exactly what kind of pressure this puts on people
> looking after children. It's hard not to give in t this 'convenient'
> way of keeping children 'happy', even if you haven't got much money
> and you try to avoid junk-food.
>
> TOY FOOD
>
>
> As if to compensate for the inadequacy of their products, McDonald's
> promote the consumption of meals as a 'fun event'. This turns the act
> of eating into a performance, with the 'glamour' of being in a
> McDonald's ('Just like it is in the ads!') reucing the food itself to
> the status of a prop.
> Not a lot of children are interested in nutrition, and even if they
> were, all the gimmicks and routines with paper hats and straws and
> balloons hide the fact that the food they're seduced into eating is at
> best mediocre, at worst poisonous - and their parnts know it's not
> even cheap.
> RONALD'S DIRTY SECRET
> ONCE told the grim story about how hamburgers are made, children are
> far less ready to join in Ronald McDonald's perverse antics. With the
> right prompting, a child's imagination can easily turn a clown into a
> bogeyman (a lot of children are very suspiciou of clowns anyway).
> Children love a secret, and Ronald's is especially disgusting.
>
>
>
> In what way are McDonald's responsible for torture and murder?
>
> THE menu at McDonald's is based on meat. They sell millions of burgers
> every day in 35 countries throughout the world. This means the
> constant slaughter, day by day, of animals born and bred solely to be
> turned into McDonald's products.
> Some of them - especially chickens and pigs - spend their lives in the
> entirely artificial conditions of huge factory farms, with no access
> to air or sunshine and no freedom of movement. Their deaths are bloody
> and barbaric.
>
> MURDERING A BIG MAC
>
>
> In the slaughterhouse, animals often struggle to escape. Cattle become
> frantic as they watch the animal before them in the killing-line being
> prodded, beaten, electrocuted, and knifed.
> A recent British government report criticised inefficient stunning
> methods which frequently result in animals having their throats cut
> while still fully conscious. McDonald's are responsible for the deaths
> of countless animals by this supposedly humane mehod. We have the
> choice to eat meat or not. The 450 million animals killed for food in
> Britain every year have no choice at all. It is often said that after
> visiting an abattoir, people become nauseous at the thought of eating
> flesh. How many of us would be prpared to work in a slaughterhouse and
> kill the animals we eat?
>
>
>
>
>
> WHAT'S YOUR POISON?
> MEAT is responsible for 70% of all food-poisoning incidents, with
> chicken and minced meat (as used in burgers) being the worst
> offenders. When animals are slaughtered, meat can be contaminated with
> gut contents, faeces and urine, leading to bacterial infetion. In an
> attempt to counteract infection in their animals, farmers routinely
> inject them with doses of antibiotics. These, in addition to
> growth-promoting hormone drugs and pesticide residues in their feed,
> build up in the animals' tissues and can furter damage the health of
> people on a meat-based diet.
>
>
> What's it like working for McDonald's?
>
> THERE must be a serious problem: even though 80% of McDonald's workers
> are part-time, the annual staff turnover is 60% (in the USA it's 300
> %). It's not unusual for their restaurant-workers to quit after just
> four or five weeks. The reasons are not had to find.
> NO UNIONS ALLOWED
>
>
> Workers in catering do badly in terms of pay and conditions. They are
> at work in the evenings and at weekends, doing long shifts in hot,
> smelly, noisy environments. Wages are low and chances of promotion
> minimal.
> To improve this through Trade Union negotiation is very difficult:
> there is no union specifically for these workers, and the ones they
> could join show little interest in the problems of part-timers (mostly
> women). A recent survey of workers in burger-resturants found that 80%
> said they needed union help over pay and conditions. Another
> difficulty is that the 'kitchen trade' has a high proportion of
> workers from ethnic minority groups who, with little chance of getting
> work elsewhere, are wary of being saced - as many have been - for
> attempting union organisation.
>
> McDonald's have a policy of preventing unionisation by getting rid of
> pro-union workers. So far this has succeeded everywhere in the world
> except Sweden, and in Dublin after a long struggle.
>
> TRAINED TO SWEAT
>
>
> It's obvious that all large chain-stores and junk-food giants depend
> for their fat profits on the labour of young people. McDonald's is no
> exception: three-quarters of its workers are under 21. The
> production-line system deskills the work itself: nybody can grill a
> hamburger, and cleaning toilets or smiling at customers needs no
> training. So there is no need to employ chefs or qualified staff -
> just anybody prepared to work for low wages.
> As there is no legally-enforced minimum wage in Britain, McDonald's
> can pay what they like, helping to depress wage levels in the catering
> trade still further. They say they are providing jobs for
> school-leavers and take them on regardless of sex or race.The truth is
> McDonald's are only interested in recruiting cheap labour - which
> always means that disadvantaged groups, women and black people
> especially, are even more exploited by industry than they are already.
>
> EVERYTHING MUST GO
> WHAT's wrong with McDonald's is also wrong with all the junk-food
> chains like Wimpy, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Wendy, etc. All of them
> hide their ruthless exploitation of resources, animals and people
> behind a facade of colourful gimmicks and 'family fun. The food itself
> is much the same everywhere - only the packaging is different. The
> rise of these firms means less choice, not more. They are one of the
> worst examples of industries motivated only by profit, and geared to
> continual expansion.
>
> This materialist mentality is affecting all areas of our lives, with
> giant conglomerates dominating the marketplace, allowing little or no
> room for people to create genuine choices. But alternatives do exist,
> and many are gathering support every day from eople rejecting big
> business in favour of small-scale self-organisation and co-operation.
>
> The point is not to change McDonald's into some sort of vegetarian
> organisation, but to change the whole system itself. Anything less
> would still be a rip-off.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> WHAT CAN BE DONE
> STOP using McDonald's, Wimpy, etc., and tell your friends exactly why.
> These companies' huge profits - and therefore power to exploit - come
> from people just walking in off the street. It does make a difference
> what individuals do. Why wait for everyoe else to wake up?
> YOUR INFLUENCE COUNTS
>
>
> * Research has shown that a large proportion of people who use
> fast-food places do so because they are there - not because they
> particularly like the food or feel hungry. This fact alone suggests
> that hamburgers are part of a giant con that peole would avoid if they
> knew what to do. Unfortunately we tend to undervalue our personal
> responsibility and influence. This is wrong. All change in society
> starts from individuals taking the time to think about the way they
> live and acting on their belief. Movements are 'just ordinary people'
> linking together, one by one...
> MAKE CONTACT, SHARE IDEAS
> YOU might not always hear about them, but there are many groups
> campaigning on the issues raised here - movements to support the
> struggles in the 'Third World', to fight for the rights of indigenous
> peoples, to protect rainforests, to oppose the killig of animals etc.
> Wherever there is oppression there is resistance: people are
> organising themselves, taking courage from the activities of ordinary,
> concerned people from all round the world, learning new ways and
> finding new energy to create a better life. The apathy of others is no
> reason to hang around waiting for someone to tell you what to 'do'.
> You need no special talents to join in your local pressure group, or
> start one up - existing groups will give information and advice if
> necessary.
>
>
> For leaflets on all aspects of vegetarianism and nutrition, animal
> rights and welfare, etc., contact ANIMAL AID, 7 Castle Street,
> Tonbridge, Kent. Plenty of other contacts can be made by writing to
> Greenpeace at the address below.
> THERE'S A DIFFERENCE YOU'LL ENJOY: NO MORE MEAT!
> KICKING the burger habit is easy. And it's the best way to start
> giving up meat altogether. Vegetarianism is no longer just a
> middle-class fad: last year the number of vegetarians in Britain
> increased by one-third. Most supermarkets now stock vgetarian produce,
> and vegans - who eat no animal products at all - are also being
> catered for. In short, the 'cranky' vegetarian label is being chucked
> out, along with all the other old myths about 'rabbit food'.
> Why not try some vegan or vegetarian recipes, just as an experiment to
> start with? When asked in a survey, most vegetarians who used to eat
> meat said they had far more varied meals after they dropped meat from
> their diet. Another survey showed that peopl on a meatless diet were
> healthier than meat-eaters, less prone to 'catch' coughs and colds,
> and with greatly reduced risk of suffering from hernia, piles, obesity
> and heart disease.
>
> LIBERATION BEGINS IN YOUR STOMACH
> THERE are loads of cheap, tasty and nutritious alternatives to a diet
> based on the decomposing flesh of dead animals: fresh fruit of all
> kinds, a huge variety of local & exotic vegetables, cereals, pulses,
> beans, rice, nuts, wholegrain foods, soya driks etc. All over the
> country wholefood co-operatives are springing up. Now is a really good
> time for change.
> A vegan Britain would be self-sufficient on only 25% of the
> agricultural land presently available. Why not get together with your
> friends and grow your own vegetables? There are over 700,000
> allotments in Britain - and countless gardens.
>
> The pleasure of preparing healthy food and sharing good meals has a
> political importance too: it is a vital part of the process of
> ordinary people taking control of their lives to create a better
> society, instead of leaving their futures in the cynical, reedy hands
> of corporations like McDonald's.
>
> WHO MADE THIS LEAFLET?
> THE LONDON GREENPEACE GROUP has existed for many years as an
> independent group of activists with no involvement in any particular
> political party. The people - not 'members' - who come to the weekly
> open meetings share a concern for the oppression in our ives and the
> destruction of our environment. Many opposition movements are growing
> in strength - ecological, anti-war, animal liberation, and
> anarchist-libertarian movements - and continually learning from each
> other. We encourage people to think and act ndependently, without
> leaders, to try to understand the causes of oppression and to aim for
> its abolition through social revolution. This begins in our own lives,
> now.
>
>
>
>
> Postal address: Greenpeace (London), 5 Caledonian Road, London N1.