In Reply to: You are picking on the wrong source posted by Jeff on June 20, 1996 at 21:55:09:
At last somebody with some sense ! The problem lies NOT with just one corporation but with SOCIETY. The increasing growth of consumerism and the "I want it so I'll get it" attitudes of everday people that causing the problem. If every customer of McDonalds cared that much about the environment or the conditions of workers it is THEM that need change there attitudes. As anyone who has ever worked in a McDonalds will know ( And I bet that the McLibel two never have ) that the hardest part of Working at McDonalds is dealing with who do not care about anything other than THEIR self satisfaction. There is no understanding of reality by people in general. People on not interested in facts - ie that things take time to cook and is this that forces McDonalds to take the course of action that it does. McDonalds tries to reduce waste ( not giving a bag with one item etc ) customer are just not interested.
When was the last time YOU said thankyou to someone in any shop and Meant it ? Why is it the only time customers talk to the person behind the counter is to complain ? ?The point to all this is that actions such as Mclibel do little to help either side. What EVERYBODY should be doing is realising that the consumerist way of life - however cheap - will cost us all in the end.