VIDEO RTS FOOD NOT BOMBS McDONALDS ACTION
RASTA4is IMC IRELAND | 14.07.2003 15:26
VIDEO 7min
McDonald's V Food Not Bombs
For as long as we can remember man has gorged them selves with the fruits of the Earth and managing to live in some what a balance with nature.
McDonald's V Food Not Bombs
For as long as we can remember man has gorged them selves with the fruits of the Earth and managing to live in some what a balance with nature.
McDonald's V Food Not Bombs
For as long as we can remember man has gorged them selves with the fruits of the Earth and managing to live in some what a balance with nature.
Mans advances exceeded our wildest dreams making it possible for mass numbers of people to live in confined spaces, cities sky scrapers and so on.
Our upsession with food also advanced to frightening realities. Right to the point that it is not what you are eating and the goodness you are getting but were you are eating it.
Well in 1940 The McDonald brothers Dick and Mac built the first McDonald's and in 1954 Ray Kroc became the first franchisee appointed by Mac and Dick McDonald in San Bernardino, California. One year later Ray Kroc opened his first restaurant in Illinois (near Chicago), and the McDonald's Corporation was created. Nine years later he would then buy all rights to the McDonald's concept from the McDonald's brothers for $2.7 million. Kroc bought Hamburger University in 1961 it is in Elk Grove, near Chicago.
Ray Kroc made a $250,000 donation to the controversial 1972 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon, a donation which was perhaps a subject of investigation during the Watergate corruption scandal. The same year Assets exceeded $500 million and sales surpassed $1 billion. A new McDonald's restaurant was opening every day. New countries included- France, El Salvador, Ireland and Austria. In 1979 A 7 month strike in Dublin (Ireland) lead to recognition of the ITGWU union. In 1985, two union activists won a victory at a labour court after claiming victimisation and unfair dismissal.
Geoffrey Guiliano, a main Ronald McDonald actor, quit in 1982 and publicly apologised, stating "I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering animals". 7,000th restaurant opened in Washington DC. McDonald's were responsible for food poisoning outbreak caused by E. Coli bacteria, which affected 47 people in Oregon and Michigan.
1984 was to see the Founder Ray Kroc die.
A McDonald's pamphlet which is distributed to health professionals in the UK states:
"There is a considerable amount of evidence to suggest that many of the diseases which are more common in the western, affluent world - diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and some forms of cancer - are related to diet. The typical western diet is relatively low in dietary fibre or roughage and is high in fat, salt and sugar."
Food not Bombs is an organization that excepts free vegetarian food and gives it away to people instead of letting it go to waste. McDonald's is the couplet opposite to this because of the fact that they sell unhealthy food and destroy or bleach their waste products so nobody can consume it.
London Greenpeace (a radical group of civil rights and environmental campaigners, independent of Greenpeace International) launched a campaign 1985 intended to expose the reality behind the advertising mask of the fast food chains, including McDonald's. A year later was to see The first World Day of Action Against McDonald's and was held on 16th October (UN 'World Food Day').
In October1994, there is an demonstration at McDonald's European headquarters in London where sackfuls of the company's litter picked up off the streets are returned. 500 people attend the National March Against McDonald's through central London to protest against the company's exploitation of people, animals and the environment.
McDonald's threatened the owner of a UK sandwich bar called "McMunchies" with legal action for breach of trademark. A retired Scottish school-teacher called Ronald McDonald, and the chief of the McDonald clan in Scotland were both outraged at this further attempt by McDonald's to claim global dominion over the prefix "Mc" and the name "McDonald" which has been an Irish and Scottish family name for centuries.
McDonald's-free zones
The now war torn nations of Albania, Afghanistan and Burmahave managed to keep the infestation that is McDonal's off their soil Who knows maybe its the food stop on the so called Road map for peace. Most of Africa has also managed to stay McDonald's free but they have a toehold in South Africa but has made little impact on the rest of the continent.
In America, Woodstock in New York State. Thirty years after the festival that took its name, this town still doesn't look kindly on chain stores (the exception being Ben & Jerry's ice-cream).
Australia: After a prolonged campaign that kept McDonald's out of Katoomba in New South Wales, the corporation is rumoured to have abandoned plans to open in Byron Bay, the hippy surfer haven.
Finally in Bermuda. The island once had a branch of McDonald's on the US Navy base. Locals could visit on Wednesdays but when the US Navy withdrew, so did the restaurant.
Will the people of the world ever wake up to the fact that fast food culture is unhealthy for us and the environment and will never lead to any good for you and me and most importantly the Crocks who created this culture in the first place.
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For as long as we can remember man has gorged them selves with the fruits of the Earth and managing to live in some what a balance with nature.
Mans advances exceeded our wildest dreams making it possible for mass numbers of people to live in confined spaces, cities sky scrapers and so on.
Our upsession with food also advanced to frightening realities. Right to the point that it is not what you are eating and the goodness you are getting but were you are eating it.
Well in 1940 The McDonald brothers Dick and Mac built the first McDonald's and in 1954 Ray Kroc became the first franchisee appointed by Mac and Dick McDonald in San Bernardino, California. One year later Ray Kroc opened his first restaurant in Illinois (near Chicago), and the McDonald's Corporation was created. Nine years later he would then buy all rights to the McDonald's concept from the McDonald's brothers for $2.7 million. Kroc bought Hamburger University in 1961 it is in Elk Grove, near Chicago.
Ray Kroc made a $250,000 donation to the controversial 1972 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon, a donation which was perhaps a subject of investigation during the Watergate corruption scandal. The same year Assets exceeded $500 million and sales surpassed $1 billion. A new McDonald's restaurant was opening every day. New countries included- France, El Salvador, Ireland and Austria. In 1979 A 7 month strike in Dublin (Ireland) lead to recognition of the ITGWU union. In 1985, two union activists won a victory at a labour court after claiming victimisation and unfair dismissal.
Geoffrey Guiliano, a main Ronald McDonald actor, quit in 1982 and publicly apologised, stating "I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering animals". 7,000th restaurant opened in Washington DC. McDonald's were responsible for food poisoning outbreak caused by E. Coli bacteria, which affected 47 people in Oregon and Michigan.
1984 was to see the Founder Ray Kroc die.
A McDonald's pamphlet which is distributed to health professionals in the UK states:
"There is a considerable amount of evidence to suggest that many of the diseases which are more common in the western, affluent world - diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and some forms of cancer - are related to diet. The typical western diet is relatively low in dietary fibre or roughage and is high in fat, salt and sugar."
Food not Bombs is an organization that excepts free vegetarian food and gives it away to people instead of letting it go to waste. McDonald's is the couplet opposite to this because of the fact that they sell unhealthy food and destroy or bleach their waste products so nobody can consume it.
London Greenpeace (a radical group of civil rights and environmental campaigners, independent of Greenpeace International) launched a campaign 1985 intended to expose the reality behind the advertising mask of the fast food chains, including McDonald's. A year later was to see The first World Day of Action Against McDonald's and was held on 16th October (UN 'World Food Day').
In October1994, there is an demonstration at McDonald's European headquarters in London where sackfuls of the company's litter picked up off the streets are returned. 500 people attend the National March Against McDonald's through central London to protest against the company's exploitation of people, animals and the environment.
McDonald's threatened the owner of a UK sandwich bar called "McMunchies" with legal action for breach of trademark. A retired Scottish school-teacher called Ronald McDonald, and the chief of the McDonald clan in Scotland were both outraged at this further attempt by McDonald's to claim global dominion over the prefix "Mc" and the name "McDonald" which has been an Irish and Scottish family name for centuries.
McDonald's-free zones
The now war torn nations of Albania, Afghanistan and Burmahave managed to keep the infestation that is McDonal's off their soil Who knows maybe its the food stop on the so called Road map for peace. Most of Africa has also managed to stay McDonald's free but they have a toehold in South Africa but has made little impact on the rest of the continent.
In America, Woodstock in New York State. Thirty years after the festival that took its name, this town still doesn't look kindly on chain stores (the exception being Ben & Jerry's ice-cream).
Australia: After a prolonged campaign that kept McDonald's out of Katoomba in New South Wales, the corporation is rumoured to have abandoned plans to open in Byron Bay, the hippy surfer haven.
Finally in Bermuda. The island once had a branch of McDonald's on the US Navy base. Locals could visit on Wednesdays but when the US Navy withdrew, so did the restaurant.
Will the people of the world ever wake up to the fact that fast food culture is unhealthy for us and the environment and will never lead to any good for you and me and most importantly the Crocks who created this culture in the first place.
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Rasta4i's ##########
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