Reply #4: Another reason not to shop there... [View All]

[KansDem]

Along with many others like:

1) crappy, unhealthy food (see "SuperSize Me")
2) predatory marketing practices aimed at children (see story above for example)
3) deforestation of the Brazilian rainforests:

"This crime stretches from the heart of the Amazon across the entire European food industry. Supermarkets and fast food giants, like McDonald's, must make sure their food is free from the links to the Amazon destruction, slavery and human rights abuses" said Gavin Edwards, the forests campaign co-ordinator for Greenpeace.

Greenpeace has targeted the chain in a new campaign launched in Britain, plastering McDonald's restaurants with posters of Ronald McDonald carrying a chain saw.

Citing the importance of the issue, McDonald's has already issued a response to the allegations in the report. Keith Kenny, senior director of quality assurance for McDonald's Europe, told Reuters, the Associated Press, and other news outlets that the company was launching an investigation into Greenpeace's claims.

"Worldwide, we take our supply chain and environmental responsibilities very seriously. We believe that the claim made by Greenpeace relates to the GM-free soya used in chicken feed," Kenny is quoted in the Guardian. "We can confirm that we will be investigating this claim fully and will review it for consistency in line with our existing policy not to source beef from recently deforested areas. McDonald's in the UK sources the majority of its food from the UK and Ireland. In 2005, over 17,000 British and Irish farmers supplied the company with ingredients."

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http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0406-greenpeace.html

4) Ronald McDonald himself refuses to eat there

FORMER CLOWN BASHES BIG MACS
Geoffrey Giuliano - a former Ronald McDonald - launched his own brand of Big Mac attack. And it was directed at his old employers, McDonald's Restaurants of Canada. "Meat is murder," the ex-hamburger clown told a crowd of about 150 animal-rights activists demonstrating in front of a McDonald's restaurant at 192A Bloor St. W.

A vegetarian since the 1970s, Giuliano lashed out at the burger giant for "the senseless killing of animals for food."

Sold out "tell the readers of the Sun Ronald McDonald says it's naughty to eat meat," he said. Giuliano, 36, played the popular clown in Toronto from 1980 to 1982. A graduate of "Ronald McDonald University" - the chain's training school - he was one of several Ronalds working throughout the world. "I sold out when I was Ronald and I'm deeply sorry for that," said Giulano, who is now a successful rock biographer living in Upstate New York

Giuliano also played the Magical Mystical Burger King for Burger King restaurants in the Northeastern U.S. in 1978-79 and is currently working on a book titled Confessions of a Corporate Clown. He made $50,000 a year, had a private chef, limo service, and an office with a personal secretary during his tenure as Ronald McDonald.

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http://www.thenazareneway.com/vegetarian/ronald_mcdonald_is_now_a_vegetar.htm