> SINCE THERE HAS BEEN A VARIED OPINION ON MCDONALDS RELATIONSHIPS WITH
> THE ECONOMY, THE ENVIRONMENT, LABOUR RELATIONS AND MANY MORE TOPICS,
> I WILL ANSWER ANY QUESTION ANYONE HAS REGARDING ANY OF THE > AFFOREMENTIONED TOPICS AND OTHERS I DID NOT MENTION. Firstly - please DON'T SHOUT - it is most unpleasent.
Rather like a visit to McDonald's - loud, brash and vulgar.
Second - what makes you an authority on everything McDonald's?
You think that because you work in a store that you a privy to
the behind the scenes workings and global consequences of the chain?
Dream on!
> IT IS UPSETTING TO ME TO SEE MANY PEOPLE STATING THAT MCDONALDS IS
> ANTI AMERICAN (CANADIAN) AND FURTHERMORE TO HAVE SOME PEOPLE
> CRITISIZE OUR PRODUCT LINE, PRICE AND PROMOTION MAKES ME WONDER WHO
> IN FACT IS ON LINE.
The type of comments and complaint you refer to are from McDonald's
customers (nobody else would care).
> THERE ARE MANY ISSUES WHICH CRITICS REGARDING MCDONALDS WILL NOT
> ARGUE WITH. FIRST OF ALL WE ARE PROVEN TO BE #1 REGARDING KIDS UNDER
> 15 CHOICE TO EAT.
That's what $1.8 billion in global advertsing (much of which is aimed at children) aimed will do. Many would consider that to be something McDonald's should be ashamed of - not proud of!
> FURTHERMORE THE HAPPY MEAL TOYS HAVE CREATED HUGE
> INCREASES IN CUSTOMER COUNTS SINCE THE KIDS ARE SCREAMING FOR
> MCDONALDS.
More brain washing - gimmicks and exploitation. You really find that something to be proud of. Parents and children so desprate for some stupid plastic toy that they will fight with other customers and buy food they don't want just to get a toy. Personally it makes me sick - and it makes me doubly sick when I think of the slave labour of impoverished workers in the third world who are being payed peanuts to make those stupid plastic toys which McDonald's bribes people with to eat their McShit.
> I COULD GO ON FOR EVER, INSTEAD E MAIL ME, I LOOK FORWARD TO HEAR > YOUR REBUTTLES AND CRITISMS.
Yeah right. I get a feeling that you might just go on forever.
> JUST REMEMBER MCDONALDS DONATE OVER 10 MILLION/YEAR TO LOCAL
> CHARITIES ALL OF WHICH COULD NOT HAPPEN. UNLESS THERE WAS COMMUNITY
> INVOLVMENT.
Oh. that's all right then. McDonald's donate a small amount of money (the majority of which is raised or donated by their customers) so we should not be concerned about their exploitation of people, animals and the environment. Heck, they have had awards for environmental excellence as well - and they mean something too. It seems that we were all mistaken. McDonald's DO care - thats obvious - after all 10 million dollars from a company that turns over 30 billion dollars and spends almost 2 billion on advertising - now thats what I call generous.
