Animal Agony, Union Busting, Deforestation, Human Disease At McDonald's

"According to the McDonald's Corporation website (as of January 2015), McDonald's has, "retailers in more than 100 countries, with more than 36,000 restaurants serving approximately 69 million people every day." (Quote from above link) Since 2007 when MCDonald's was in 119 countries, it is in 19 fewer countries but still the biggest Western corporate restaurant chain.
Quote from  http://geography.about.com

McDonald's Sues Seattle Washington Challenging Its Right To Raise The Minimum Wage In Its City

 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/10/1369950/-McDonald-s-and-others-suing-to-get-injunction-against-Seattle-s-minimum-wage

The 14th Amendment, an anti slavery amendment, guarantees all persons equal protection under the law. McDonald's argues that corporations are legally people.

 http://boingboing.net/2015/03/09/mcdonalds-sues-to-block-seat.html

When Richard Nixon was president, Ray Kroc, McD founder, gave him 1 million dollars in exchange for Nixon's exempting fast food chains from minimum wage. Nixon did so, but was overridden by Congress.  http://aflcio.org

Employee Burns At McDonald's..workers after seriously burned told to put mayonnaise or mustard on the burn

 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/16/1371270/-McDonald-s-workers-We-get-burned-on-the-job-and-told-to-put-mayonnaise-on-it?detail=facebook_sf


McDonald's leafleters declared not guilty after arrest
 http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Actions-UK/UKProtestornotguilt.htm

McDonald's lawsuits, a tiny sliver of them
 http://www.law360.co...y_articles/2652

McDonald's fries have not just oil, salt and potatoes but 17 ingredients.  http://www.care2.com/greenliving/shocking-ingredients-in-mcdonalds-french-fries.html

Why Do Fast Food Outlets Have Higher Crime Rates?  http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/222596/index.php

Transcript of the longest trial in British history The judge ruled that McDonald's was guilty among other things of cruelty to animals

 http://www.mcspotlight.org/help.html

Unionbusting fast food chains
 http://www.ufcw.com/

Eating meat is the biggest factor in global heating
 http://earthday.net/...rint/index.html

McDonald's ordered to pay 1 million for having put lard (sheep tallow) in their french fries
Lawsuit by Hindus and other vegetarians
 http://www.vegsource...declaration.pdf

On April 30, Steve Inskeep of NPR reported that a Kuala Lumpur appeals court has
ruled McDonald's has no standing to prevent another restaurant from naming itself
McCurry. As millions of Scots have said, McDonald's doesn't own the prefix Mc

Before the NAACP and Charles Griffis, a Los Angeles franchiser, sued, McDonald's did not
allow black franchisers to buy in white neighborhoods. The case was settled out of court.
 http://www.naacp.org/

In return for 1 million dollars from Ray Kroc, Richard Nixon agreed to exempt fast food chains
from minimum wage laws. Later Congress repealed the law.
 http://www.aflcio.org/

Annie Besant, founder of the Theosophical Society, wrote that places involving murdered
animals attract violence. The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
 http://www.mcmurder.com

Both Prince Charles and his father Prince Philip have made public statements, the former
that McDonald's should be shut down, the latter that McDonald's was destroying the rainforest.

Unconstitutional court gag orders which violate the 1st amendment prevent the public
from knowing the results of the tens of thousands? of lawsuits against McDonald's
for food poisoning and many other situations.

National Public Radio was the recipient of 200 million dollars from Joan Kroc, Ray Kroc's
widow. Unfortunately several times a week the NPR staff work in product placement
ads for the chain. Marketplace, Morning Edition, All Things Considered etc. How can there
be unbiased coverage of news when such a financial incentive to promote a company is
involved?

Pitcher Goose Gossage of the San Diego Padres was suspended for saying McDonald's
was poisoning the world with cheeseburgers.  http://www.pcrm.org/

The fried head of an innocent chicken was in an order at a Hampton Roads Virginia McDonald's
 http://www.wvec.com/
 http://www.wvec.com/...hicken_head.jpg

Cargill, the largest private equity firm in the US (little public supervision) is one of
many slaughterhouse operations McDonald's employs.

The Consumer Freedom group is funded by multinational corporations. Its CEO subsidizes
attacks on animal rights activists.  http://www.worldanimalnet.org/

McDonald's had had 70 legal complaints about hot coffee burns (2nd and 3rd degree)
before someone finally won.
 http://www.vanosteen...fee-lawsuit.htm

Is McDonald's the world's biggest butcher of mammals?
 http://www.meatout.org/

 http://www.meatrix.com/

Hygiene: admittedly it's hard to make the serving of cadavers a clean business.
 http://www.walletpop.../tag/mcdonalds/

Animal flesh is the world's biggest cause of annual deaths, from heart disease, strokes,
food poisoning, many kinds of cancer, kidney breakdown (carnivores have 5 times our
kidney size per lb.
 http://www.pcrm.org/

Animal flesh is an addiction
The trioxypurine or uric acid or preurine in animal muscle cells is more addictive than
caffein, dioxypurine (3 oxypurines to 2). You can break the chains which cause animal agony.
The link is to Why I Don’t Eat Meat by Owen Parrett, MD, author of Diseases of Food Animals  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/06/510447.html


McDonald's generates the most litter in England and around the world.
 http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/fast-food-leaves-the-most-litter.html

While McDonald's has accommodated many different cultures with McFalafel in some Arab
countries, no cow flesh in India, and veggie burgers in European countries, it has
never yet followed Burger King and several other fast food chains in offering a vegan burger
in the US. It has no soy icecreams.  http://www.vegdining.com/


Annie Besant, founder of the Theosophical Society, wrote that places involving murdered
animals attract violence. In the San Ysidro California McDonald's massacre

21 were killed, 19 injured

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre

More links

 http://engforum.pravda.ru/index.php?/topic/225349-mcdonalds-unionbusting-obesity-issues-animal-rights-etc/

McNuggets contain skin, blood vessels, etc.

 http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/4332/20131005/chicken-nuggets-contain-skin-tissue-blood-vessels-more-study-finds.htm

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. fast food chains unethically market to children
. fast food chains' advertising budgets shout down good nutrition
. fast food chains create litter
. fast food chains add to global heating
. fast food chains spread obesity
. fast food chains generate millions of food poisoning incidents

 http://happycow.net veg dining around world

 http://vegdining.com

 http://mccruelty.com

 http://mcmurder.com

Books:
McLibel
Fast Food Nation
Movie:
Supersize Me
 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390521/
 http://www.meatrix.com/

43 Judge Keeps FLSA Claims Against McDonald's Alive
Law360, New York (February 12, 2009) -- A federal judge has dealt a blow to McDonald's Corp. in its bid to dismiss federal overtime claims brought by a group of Missouri employees.

 http://www.facebook.com/usauncut/photos/a.190167221017767.44131.186219261412563/938357519532063/?type=1

McDonald's Pink Slime

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCqKl4Q3hW4
 http://www.mcspotlight.org/help.html