McDonald's were given a full-page spread in the Lincolnshire Echo today to celebrate that they had been serving their junk food in Lincoln for a quarter of a century.

An independent restaurant serving quality food, would be a cause for celebration.

McDonald's closing down would be a cause for celebration.

That McDonald's has been serving junk food for a quarter of a century is no cause for celebration, and it is a sad state of affairs the the Lincolnshire Echo should feel otherwise.

The kids eating in McDonald's will be lucky if they see past their 30th birthday, the parents who take their kids to McDonald's should be charged with child abuse.

Web

 http://www.mcspotlight.org/

Reference

Joanna Blythman, Bad Food Britain, Fourth Estate, 2006
 http://www.heureka.clara.net/books/bad-food-britain.htm

Greg Critser, Fat Land
 http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5673284
 http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5457144

Fast Food Nation, March 2006 {DVD}
 http://www.participate.net/fastfoodnation

Felicity Lawrence, Not on the Label: What Really Goes Into the Food on Your Plate, Penguin, 2004
 http://www.heureka.clara.net/books/notonthelabel.htm
 http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5457973

Charlotte Orson, We're Lovin' It!, Lincolnshire Echo, 7 July 2007
 http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=156130&command=displayContent&sourceNode=242285&home=yes&more_nodeId1=156139&contentPK=19464677

Keith Parkins, MP promotes junk food, Indymedia UK, 17 January 2007
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360187.html

Keith Parkins, MP yet again pictured promoting McDonald's, Indymedia UK, 19 January 2007
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360389.html?c=on

Keith Parkins, Why do we feed our kids junk food?, Indymedia UK, 12 February 2007
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/362123.html

Keith Parkins, Bad Food Britain, to be published

Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Penguin/Allen Lane, 2001

Super Size Me! {DVD}

John Vidal, McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial, The New Press, 1997
 http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5444601