Quote : "Mc Donalds kill animals, people and the planet."

Erm no they don't personally kill animals they get there meat from official meat distirbuters the same a supermarkets and other food shops do.

Kill people ???? Come where is the evidence for this?
Kill the planet??? Again where is the evidence for this?

You make prejudicial statements based on rumours and myths. Then condemn others who use rumours and myths like politicians and governments.

Justice Bell's Verdict
19th June 1997

Key quotes from the Judgement
Nutrition
In my judgement a diet high in fat (including saturated fat) and animal products, and low in fibre, sustained over very many years, probably does lead to a very real risk of heart disease in due course.

... the small proportion of McDonald's customers who eat McDonald's food several times a week will take the very real risk of heart disease if they continue to do so throughout their lives, encouraged by the Plaintiffs' advertising.

... I do find that various of the First and Second Plaintiffs' advertisements, promotions and booklets have pretended to a positive nutritional benefit which McDonald's food, high in fat and saturated fat and animal products and sodium, and at one time low in fibre, did not match.


Advertising
... the sting of the leaflet to the effect that the Plaintiffs exploit children by using them, as more susceptible subjects of advertising, to pressurise their parents into going to McDonald's is justified. It is true.


Animals
... the First and Second Plaintiffs are culpably responsible for cruel practices in the rearing and slaughter of some of the animals which are used to produce their food...


Employment
The Second Plaintiff does pay its workers low wages, thereby helping to depress wages for workers in the catering trade in Britain. To this extent the defamatory charge in the leaflet is partly justified.


Lots more info on this here, if you're actually interested:
 http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/trial/verdict/index.html

If you didn't know the Mc Libel 2 lost their court case which was won against them by Mc Donalds. The judge in the case agreed that the claims in their leaflet were over the top and exaggerated. As for Mc Donalds food being unhealthy, no one is going to eat nothing but fast food throughout their lives. Fast food is meant as a snack, to fill you up and keep you going between main meals, not as the major meal of the day!

Just face it the people who hate Mc Donalds are vegan fanatics. They don't have widespread public support. And while if we all adopted a strict vegan diet we would be much healthier, this can only be achieved slowly not by picking in individual meat outlets and demonising them. The Mc libel two could also have avoided the libel case altogether if they had made a generalised leaflet about meat consumption in general, which would also have got their message across better.

You can get around Libel Laws in Britian, by copyrighting the Pamphlets with US based websites, thus making the brochures subject to US civil law and not British Civil Law. It would be easy, print the anti-McDonald's flyers here in the US, and ship them over to the UK for distribution.

My old American friend,

Are you seriously suggesting that because the leaflets are from America then the person handing them out in the UK will somehow not be liable under UK liable laws? Consider and discuss the legal realities of this.

Boab

Analyser, you are just trying to justify sitting in your armchair by nit-picking when if you wanted to you could do research, not take things quite so literally to justify your scepticism, and who knows, even take action to make the world a better place. Alternatively, stay sitting and take up some sport that's not stirring it on here.

"Every time you eat a hamburger your eating cow feces, it's that simple." | 14.10.2005 18:10 | Health | Birmingham
For Sunday October 16th International Day of Action Against McDonalds, Birmingham Food Not Bombs will be serving free vegeburgers outside McDonalds near Pigeon Park/Rackhams as part of the actions on the day. It should be an action packed day as there are other demos/actions taking place.



Email  brum_fnb@riseup.net if you would like to help out this weekend. There will be cooking taking place on Saturday in addition to the main event on Sunday.

 http://www.mcspotlight.org/

 http://www.foodnotbombs.net/

"Every time you eat a hamburger your eating cow feces, it's that simple."