[Wolves] OT McDonalds Free Wireless

Richard Smedley smedley358 at btinternet.com
Thu Jan 31 14:04:54 GMT 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:14 +0000, Wayne wrote:
> I'm no fan of McDonalds, but I can see why they got upset over that 
> first leaflet - lots of scary propoganda with absolutely no
> reference material to back it up
> eg
> "McDonald's and Burger King are two of the many US corporations using 
> lethal poisons to destroy vast areas of Central American rainforest to 
> create grazing pastures for cattle to be sent back to the States as 
> burgers and pet food, and to provide fat-food packaging materials. 
> (Don't be fooled by McDonald's saying they use recycled paper: only a 
> tiny per cent of it is. The truth is it takes 800 square miles of forest 
> just to keep them supplied with paper for one year. Tons of this end up 
> litteing the cities of 'developed' countries.)"

Lots of references came up at the libel trial, but I don't 
want to take two threads off-topic in one day [1], so let's
leave it, or take it off-list ;-)

 - Richard

[1] Okay, too late, but I'm stopping now =o)







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