Animal agony, unionbusting, deforestation, human disease, crime, corruption, environmental desecration, energy waste, litter (biggest corporate British litterer).... some reasons McDonald's
faces 139 stores closing in Japan and 700 systemwide this year.
faces 139 stores closing in Japan and 700 systemwide this year.
1.5 Million Underpaid Workers
Hundreds of millions have moved away from animal flesh. McDonald's is one of many chains feeling the change.
McDonald's Has Closed 350 Stores Since Jan 1, 2015 Will Close 350 More This Year
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/04/23/mcdonalds-closing-hundreds-stores-worldwide?cmpid=foodinc-fb http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/23/18771454.php 139 McDonald's in Japan, 2nd biggest market, have closed because of a 1 million McNugget recall prompted by blue plastic bits in the McNuggets
http://pix11.com/2015/01/16/nearly-1-million-mcnuggets-recalled/ http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/01/mcdonalds-just-recalled-one-million-chicken-mcnuggets-super-gross-reason McDonald's has been losing customers because of the explosion of vegans and vegetarians, the labor movement, the environmental movement, health conscious doctors etc.
Longest Trial IN British History
It has been 10 years since the European Court of Human Rights in 2005 fined British courts 57,000 pounds for denying free speech to Steel and Morris in London Greenpeace V McDonald's,
Unionbusting, obesity, strokes, heart attacks, cancer, animal agony, deforestation, rainforest destruction, energy waste, crime, litter, employee burns, unusual ingredients continue to be associated with the Western wrold's biggest restaurant chain
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 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 lawyers arrange a gag rule re many out of court settlements. Such gag rules are a violation of the 1st amendment which guarantees the freedom of an individual to speak.
"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 and now serves 47 million rather than 69 million daily.
http://geography.about.com Labor Links
McDonald's Sues Seattle 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://ufcw.org 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 New York AG Forces McDonald’s Franchise Owner to Pay Up for Violating Wage Laws
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/new_york_ag_puts_the_heat_on_mcdonalds_franchise_owner_for_wage_20140318 McDonald's advises execs on how much to tip their servants
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/mcdonalds_advises_workers_how_much_to_tip_their_pool_boys_and_au_pairs McDonald's lays off 63 at its headquarters
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/ct-warn-notices-0108-biz-jpg-20150107-photo.html McDonald's Canada threatened with boycott over use of temporary foreign workers
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mcdonald-s-boycott-threatened-over-use-of-temporary-foreign-workers-1.2608929 http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/04/14/mcdonalds-boycott-canada_n_5145186.html 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.
Racism
McDonald's 125 outlets in Israel fire employees if they are found speaking Arabic
http://www.inminds.com/boycott-mcdonalds.php McDonald's connection to Aipac and Jack Greenberg
http://vpm.org.my/bds/32-why-boycott-mcdonalds Malaysians call for boycott of McDonald's because of its connection to Aipac
https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/08/15/how-the-boycott-mcdonalds-campaign-for-gaza-is-hurting-some-muslims-in-malaysia/ For many years McDonald’s would not allow black franchisers to buy in predominantly white neighborhoods until Charles Griffis, a Los Angeles franchiser, with the help of the Haacp successfully sued.
http://naacp.org McDonald's ignored filings re race-based firings, lawsuit says
http://www.law360.com/articles/613970/mcdonald-s-ignored-race-based-firings-harassment-suit-says Community Relations
McDonald's closing stores in Iceland
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/business/global/27mcdonalds.html?_r=0 McDonald's to close hundreds of outlets in Japan
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/02/09/mcdonalds-to-close-430-outlets-in-japan-as-economy-falters/ Russia closes 4 Moscow McDonald's... says the products are contaminated
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-to-mcdonalds-were-closing-it-20140820-story.html Some of many countries without McDonald's are
Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Ghana, Iceland, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, N. Korea, Yemen, Zimbabwe
http://www.thedailymeal.com/10-countries-banned-mcdonalds-slideshow#10 Australians bring their fight to keep McDonald’s away from their park to US headquarters
http://www.progressillinois.com/quick-hits/content/2013/09/18/australians-bring-their-fight-against-mcdonalds-companys-oak-brook-hea In Queens, NY, the Korean community says McDonald's shows disrespect
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/nyregion/leaders-urge-customers-to-boycott-mcdonalds.html?_r=0 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 Many communities have banned McDonald’s for a variety of reasons.
Pricegouging
It took the competition of a Canadian chain offering 69 cent soda drinks before McDonald's recently cut its own cola prices from nearly $2. to $1.
Coca Cola
Coke has had an exclusive contract with Coke in many areas. Why has Coca Cola not exerted its power to make changes in McDonald's treatment of animals, workers, etc.
Contaminated Food
McDonald's Pink Slime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCqKl4Q3hW4 What's in a chicken nugget
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/whats-in-chicken-nuggets_n_4045641.html 1 million McNuggets recalled in Japan. They contained blue plastic bits. See link above
19 Ingredients in McDonald's fries instead of just oil, salt and potatoes
http://www.takepart.com/video/2015/01/22/mcdonalds-french-fries http://www.care2.com/greenliving/shocking-ingredients-in-mcdonalds-french-fries.html McNuggets contain skin, blood vessels, etc.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/4332/20131005/chicken-nuggets-contain-skin-tissue-blood-vessels-more-study-finds.htm Doctors fight to ban fast food from hospitals
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/21/hospitals-ban-fast-food?cmpid=foodinc-fb While Mr Easterbrook has made some of the produce more fresh in England, it is still substandard in the US.
ALL Animal AND Fish Flesh, Eggs AND Dairy Cause Disease
McDonald's has resisted fresh fruit juice, fresh vine products such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, beans, avocado, hummus, tofu, falafel nonanimal icecreams, vegan sandwiches since its inception.
http://pcrm.org http://notmilk.com 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 Over 1000 toxic disease engendering ingredients in animal and fish flesh.
http://allpoetry-classic.com/column/9722763-Blood_Sweat_And_Tears_Toxins_In_The_Flesh_Of_Murdered_Animals_-by-saiom Obesity
It is virtually universally known that McDonald’s high calorie foods cause obesity. Dairy products are designed to produce a 1000 pound cow in 1 year. Isocaloric studies reveal in many studies that vegans weigh an average 23 pounds less than nonvegetarians and 11 pounds less than dairy vegetarians. The participants were given the same number of calories daily for 3 months.
Crime
Why Do Fast Food Outlets Have Higher Crime Rates?
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/222596/index.php In a San Ysidro California McDonald's, 21 were killed and 19 injured by a man.
http://www.crimetv.com/page/true/massacres/san-ysidro-mcdonald%2527s-massacre/1325' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre Annie Besant, founder of the Theosophical Society, wrote that places involving murdered
animals attract violence. The San Ysidro California McDonald's massacre
http://www.mcmurder.com McDonald's ordered to pay 27 million to families of 2 teens who died after severely beaten in McD parking lot
http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/07/mcdonalds-ordered-to-pay-27-million-to-family-of-flower-mound-teen-friend-following-beating-and-fatal-car-wreck.html/ McDonald's ordered to pay 6.1 million in stripsearch hoax
http://archive.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/92911/6/McDonalds-Ordered-to-Pay-61-Million-in-Strip-Search-Hoax-Lawsuit Federal agent shot a man to death in McDonald's
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058486/Federal-agent-charged-murder-McDonalds-Hawaii.html Corruption
There is corruption in state employee pension funds invested in McDonald's in violation of the public trust.
National Public Radio has 200 million dollars in McDonald's stock which holdings cancel any claim it might have to honest reporting.
ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Clear Channel (now Iheart Radio), etc have each taken in tens of billions of dollars from McDonald's advertising. They have for years censored news
which would harm corporate holdings.
Goose Gossage, former pitcher of the San Diego Padres, was suspended for saying publicly that McDonald's was poisoning the world with cheeseburgers.
McDonald's has an unethical relationship with its suppliers and has looked the other way in regards to heinous treatment of slaughterhouse bound animals.
McDonald's is more dovetailed with the meat industry than any other fast food chain and has ignored Americans' requests for a vegan sandwich. Burger King has a vegetarian veggieburger, Taco Bell a bean burrito, Chipotle more than 1 alternative. McDonald's is the dinosaur of fast food chains.
Wall Street has been a major partner in crime with McDonald's in conspiracy against the earth itself, the animals who live on it, the health of human beings, the rights of workers etc.
McDoanld's unethical marketing to children has enraged millions of parents.
Richard Berman's Center For Consumer Freedom is funded by McDonald's and other fast food chains, as well as other corporations involved in animal suffering.
http://bermanexposed.org/center-for-consumer-freedom/ It was revealed in the course of the trial of McDonald's V London Greenpeace that McDoanld's had hired London policemen to do undercover informant work and to infiltrate London Greenpeace, whcih was at the time leafleting McDonald's customers.
Animal Agony
http://mccruelty.com Is McDonald's the world's biggest butcher of mammals?
http://www.meatout.org/ http://www.meatrix.com/ http://mercyforanimals.org/hatchery Cargill, the largest private equity firm in the US (little public supervision) is one of
many slaughterhouse operations McDonald's employs.
Environment: Deforestation, Ocean Islands OF Plastic, AIR Pollution
A UN environmental panel was awarded the Nobel Prize for its work in proving that cattle ranching is more harmful to the environment than cars.
Eating meat is the biggest factor in global heating
http://earthday.net/...rint/index.html The litter McDonald’s if it makes it to a trash bin rather than cluttering the countryside generates clogs landfills requiring further deforestation
It is not just the deforestation of cattle ranching but the the billions of trees cut for McDonald’s napkins, the plastic islands swirling in the ocean which give McDonald’s the world’s worst environmental footprint.
McDonald’s is UK’s biggest litterer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/4223106/McDonalds-waste-makes-up-largest-proportion-of-fast-food-litter-on-streets.html http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/fast-food-leaves-the-most-litter.html 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.
Air pollution by drive throughs in general.... McD average wait time per customer has gone from 2.5 to 3 minutes
https://wordpress.com/read/post/id/70135762/15787/ US Senator Stafford of Vermont worked successfully to stop McDonald’s use of Styrofoam
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/06/business/mcdonald-s-containers.html Lying
McDonald's ordered to pay 1 million for having put lard (sheep tallow) in their french fries
Lawsuit by Hindus and other vegetarians
http://vegsource.com Other Lawsuits
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
Annie Besant, founder of the Theosophical Society, wrote that places involving murdered
animals attract violence. The San Ysidro California 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/ Addiction
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 While McDonald's has accommodated many different cultures with McFalafel in some Arab countries, no cow flesh in India, beer and veggieburgers in some German outlets
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/ More links
http://engforum.pravda.ru/index.php?/topic/225349-mcdonalds-unionbusting-obesity-issues-animal-rights-etc/ Doctors fight to ban fast food from hospitals
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/21/hospitals-ban-fast-food?cmpid=foodinc-fb . 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/ 9306 1017 63
Footnote from Wikipedia:
The original case (McLibel London Greenpeace v McDonald's) lasted ten years, making it the longest-running case in English history. McDonald's announced that it did not plan to collect the £40,000 that it was awarded by the courts. Following the decision, the European Court of Human Rights (Echr) ruled in Steel & Morris v United Kingdom that the pair had been denied a fair trial, in breach of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to a fair trial) and that their conduct should have been protected by Article 10 of the Convention, which protects the right to freedom of expression. The court awarded a judgment of £57,000 against the UK government.
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