: : >> we run a very successful, ethical and fun business...: : What do you mean by 'ethical business'?
: Meaning we practice good people practices and are here to serve the customer and provide them with what they want. if people didn't want McDonald's they wouldn't have helped create it to be THE most successful fast food restaurant in the world.
Of course, I must have missed the great Burger Riots in the late '40s, when crowds of people held mass uprisings due to the non-existence of fast food. How limited my education is...
(I think you'll find that people wouldn't be quite to hot on going to McD's if they didn't spend billions on advertising...)
: Meaning we support numerous charities and regularly contibute to the research in cancer amongst children.
By providing guinea pigs, no doubt...
: Meaning we support families with children who are sick by providing accomodation through Ronald McDonald Houses.
Of course, having all these charitable endeavours making a loss has absolutely no impact on your taxable status, as well as not being even slightly helpful to the image of McD's as a "caring, sharing" corp...
: : Just what is so ethical about McDonald's - fast 'food', fast profits?
: Every business exists to provide a service and make money. Unfortunately we all need money to survive in this world. Oh..and by the way...thats what FREE enterprise is all about :)
Actually, there's no actual _need_ for money per se, most of the planet survives quite happily without it, it was just invented to make transactions easier.
Some businesses exist to make money and (maybe) provide a service.
: : You pay low wages to a mainly unskilled, part time, work force.
: Let me enlighten you.....McDonald's Austalia is recognized as the BEST of the best McDonald Systems currently operating.
Terrific. Rather like saying Pope Leo the Second was the nicest of the Borgias...
: : You promote a diet known to be unhealthy.
: Firstly...McDonald's never promotes a diet...it promotes a meal.
Right, and by that sophistry you expose yourself. McDonald's is known to target the medium-to-heavy users with a view to making them SHUs (Super Heavy Users). Your strategists would like more and more people to eat more and more burgers (hence the continuing proliferation of McD's on street corners, despite the fact that many urban areas have long since been "saturated" with McD's).
If you aren't trying to get people to eat a majority diet of fast food, what are you doing? Is there some mission statement that says there must be a McD's on every corner for the good of Ray Kroc's soul?
You aren't promoting nutrition. And people don't come to McD's for nutrition (according to one of your senior US people). So you promote a non-nutritious meal for the sake of profits. Yet you disclaim any responsibility for the poor fools who live on your "food". At least a heroin dealer doesn't pretend his stuff is good for you.
:McDonald's also promotes people should have a balance diet.....receivig sustinence fom the major food groups.
Which would, of course, explain the vast selection of green vegetables in every McDonald's (cooked lightly, of course, to preserve the nutrients). Iceberg lettuce is nice, but it's effectively flavoured water.
: five-star restaurant. It examined many facets of food preparation. McDonald's is way ahead in these areas. Our food is of the highest quality possible for the type of industry we are in.
"For the type of industry we are in"
This can be paraphrased as "If we tried to make our food any better, we'd lose profits". That's a really slippery statement.
Why do you have such vast problems admitting that you deal in cheap, unhealthy, mass-produced unfood?
: If you have any queries contact FJ WALKERS..our national Supplier for all our produce.
Or try to contact Sun Valley, if you live in the UK. Mind you, since Sun Valley were found to be cruel to animals by the judge (making McD's "culpably cruel" in that they were responsible for the demand), they might not be too keen to speak to you.
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: Now, Lets take a basic look at a McDonald's meal....
Oh, goody.
: Big Mac - 100% pure beef, bread, fresh lettuce, cheese, dill pickles, onion and Big Mac sauce
Beef: Any bit of cow that isn't actually bone (bone is sometimes found in McD's burgers). The cow will have been pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics, making it a walking chemical hazard.
Bread: Cheap white rolls, containing flour improver. Yum.
Fresh Lettuce: Non-organic Iceberg lettuce. Basically flavoured water, seasoned with a selection of pesticides and other agrochemicals.
: Shakes - fresh dairy mix straight from the local dairy company
Full fat milk, from cows also fed a constant diet of hormones to keep them producing milk. The cows will usually suffer constant pain and inflammation of the udders due to the continual milking.
: Bacon & Egg McMuffin - Freshly cracked eggs you buy in a supermarket
: plus canadian bacon directly produced by a high quality meat company.
Battery-produced eggs, from hens that will spend their entire lives within an area the size of an A4 sheet of paper (about 8 inches by 10.5 inches). Bacon from pigs that will probably be kept in "farrowing crates" - an inhumane form of restriction for an animal that likes to root.
: I suggest you contact a McDonald's Consultant and do your research before you start talking about something you don't have the FACTS on.
We've got all the facts right here. Something a cursory glance at this site would have told you. Of course, if you had any desire for an unbiased view, you'd have recommended an independent consultant. I don't think a McD's employee can really give a qualified and unbiased view, however.
You can, however, find the transcripts of the entire court case on this web site, as well as summaries of the evidence.
: so does every supermarket and butcher.........who's service it to provide fresh meats for those who wish to enjoy such a type of meal, that's THEIR choice. If you don't eat meat that is your choice.
Uh-huh, but McD's started the case because they didn't like the leaflet London Greenpeace were handing out. That's not merely a matter of choice. That's a matter of freedom of speech.
: : Just what is it that you think is ethical about you business?
: What i just said.
And your response was shifty, evasive and misdirecting. Prove _me_ wrong.
Gideon.