MMMMMmmmcDonalds...
i got this quite hilarious yet truthful email today, enjoy:
> 1.McDonald's spends more on advertising than any other
> brand in the world.
> 2.It runs more playgrounds than any other private entity in
> the world.
> 3.It gives away more toys than any other private entity in
> the world.
> 4.During the vastly successful Furby giveaway in 1997,
> McDonald's sold 100 million Happy Meals to kids.
> Many of the meals were thrown away for the toy.
> 5.Every month, 90% of the children between 3 and 9 in
> America visit a McDonald's.
> 6.In a survey of nine and ten year olds, half of them said
> they thought that Ronald McDonald knew best what kids
> should eat. In China, kids said that Ronald McDonald
> was kind, funny, gentle, and understood children's hearts.
> 7.The Golden Arches are more widely known than the
> Christian cross in the world today.
> 8.McDonald's has 29,000 restaurants in the world and
> opens eight new ones a day.
> 9.Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's said this: "We
> have found... that we cannot trust some people who are
> non-conformists. We will make conformists out of them
> in a hurry... The organization cannot trust the individual;
> the individual must trust the organization."
> 10.The vast majority of workers at McDonald's lack
> full-time employment, do not have any benefits, have no
> or little control over their workplace, and quit after a few
> months.
> 11.McDonald's jobs have been purposely de-skilled so as
> to be able to hire minimum wage workers on an
> interchangeable basis. One-third of fast food workers
> speaks no English.
> 12.McDonald's and other chains are aiming for automated
> equipment that will require zero training and are nearly
> there. Nevertheless, they fight hard to retain hundreds of
> millions of dollars of government subsidies for "training"
> their workers. A worker has only to work for 400 hours
> for the chain to receive its $2,400 subsidy. In essence,
> the American taxpayer subsidizes low wages,
> automation, and turnover at fast food chains.
> 13.Turnover is 3-400% a year. 90% are paid hourly, have
> no benefits, and are scheduled to work only as needed.
> 14.Fast food pays a higher proportion of minimum wage to
> its workers than any other industry in America.
> 15.In the late 1990s, the real minimum wage in constant
> dollars was 27% lower than in the 1960s. Nevertheless,
> McDonald's and other chains vigorously opposed raising
> minimum wages at the Federal, state, or local level.
> 16.A typical McDonald's has fifty workers working 30
> hours a week, thus avoiding the need for overtime.
> 17.Managers make an average of $23,000 and work 50-70
> hours a week
> 18.Not one worker at McDonald's belongs to a union.
> 19.The only time a restaurant was unionized recently was in
> 1997 in Montreal. The restaurant was closed just before
> the union was certified.
> 20.McDonald's trade organization, the National Council of
> Chain Restaurants, has fought hard to prevent
> enforcement of OHSA regulations at fast food chains.
> 21.Fast food restaurants are robbed more often by their
> employees than any other business.
> 22.The average American now consumes three hamburgers
> and four orders of french fries per week.
> 23.Due in part to the industrialization of agriculture driven by
> the fast food industry, the United States is losing farmers
> so fast that it now has more prisoners than farmers.
> 24.The biggest seller of Coke is McDonald's. Americans
> already drink 56 gallons of soda per year. Coke wants to
> increase consumption of its products by 25% a year by
> focusing more on kids since the adult market is stagnant.
> 25.McDonald's makes most of its profits on Coke, about a
> 91% gross margin. The food is a come-on which is why
> it is both sold and purchased at the lowest possible
> prices.
> 26.The Center for Science in the Public Interest calls Coke
> liquid candy. Each can contains ten teaspoons of sugar.
> A significant number of teen boys are drinking five cans a
> day.
> 27.30% of American public high schools now sell fast food
> inside the schools.
> 28.McDonald's uses a computer program called Quintillion
> that uses satellite imagery, GPS maps, and demographic
> tables to automatically site new restaurants. As one
> observer noted, McDonald's uses the same equipment
> developed during the cold war to spy on their customers.
> 29.For decades McDonald's cooked their fries in 93% beef
> tallow, which meant the fries had more saturated fat than
> a hamburger. In 1990, they changed to vegetable oil after
> being hammered by critics. Recently, McDonald's was
> sued by a vegetarian Indian lawyer in Seattle when it was
> discovered that the natural flavor used by McDonald's in
> their french fries was made from beef.
> 30.McDonald's is the largest purchaser of beef in the world.
> 31.McDonald's buys from five large meatpackers. These
> companies have gained a stranglehold over the industry
> (just as in potatoes) that has driven down prices. Over
> the last twenty years 500,000 cattle ranchers have gone
> out of business. Over that time, the rancher's share of
> every beef dollar has fallen from 63 cents to 46 cents.
> The suicide rate amongst farmers and ranchers in the US
> is three times the national average.
> 32.To satisfy and take advantage of the world wide growth
> of fast food, the large chicken and beef packers in the
> US are buying out local companies all over the world.
> Cargill, IBP, Tyson's control the world meat industry
> because of fast food chains.
> 33.Chicken McNuggets were also cooked in beef tallow
> until public outrage caused McDonald's to stop. Even in
> vegetable oil, Chicken McNuggets contain twice the fat
> per ounce as a hamburger.
> 34.Every time you eat a hamburger, you are eating anabolic
> steroids, antibiotics, and fecal matter. You can read it
> again. And it will still be true. You are better off eating a
> carrot dropped in your toilet than eating one dropped in
> your kitchen sink if you buy and use packaged meat.
> 35.Feedlot cattle are also given shredded packaging,
> cardboard boxes, cement, and sawdust to put on weight.
> 36.Cattle that go into hamburgers drink dirty swill water and
> dirty food. Until 1997, they were fed millions of dead
> cats and dogs purchased from animal shelters. They still
> eat dead pigs, horses, and poultry. (And chickens are fed
> dead cattle).
> 37.Cattle are also fed chicken manure, which may contain
> tapeworms, Giardia, antibiotic residues, arsenic and
> heavy metals. Federal inspectors report that animals that
> are visibly diseased, cattle infected with measles,
> tapeworms, and covered with abscesses are slaughtered
> and processed into meat. This is why the industry and the
> USDA are pushing meat irradiation rather then safety,
> health, and inspections as a solution.
> 38.One-fourth of the cows slaughtered is worn-out dairy
> cattle, animals most likely to be riddled with diseases,
> cancers, and antibiotic residues. McDonald's relies
> heavily on old dairy cows because they are lower in fat,
> cheaper, and allow them to say all their meat is raised in
> the US.
> 39.Modern day slaughter houses and meatpacking plants are
> literally worse than in the day of Upton Sinclair. The rate
> of injury, mutilation, amputation and dismemberment of
> workers is extraordinary. Rapes, sexual harassment, and
> fondling of immigrant women are widely known. Most
> workers are immigrants and dare not report them.
> 40.In congressional testimony, it has been revealed that
> injury reports are regularly and routinely falsified at
> meatpacking houses. All fast food chain meat comes
> from these four or five houses.
> 41.Both the meatpackers and the fast food industry have
> been major supporters of the Republican right wing.
> 42.The rate of obesity in the US is double what it was in the
> 60s. In children, it is double what it was in the 70s. The
> children of the United States are now the "fattest, least fit
> generation ever."
> 43.In 1991, only four states had obesity rates of 15% of
> higher. Today, 37 states do. Fifty million Americans are
> obese or super obese. Obesity is second only to smoking
> as a cause of mortality in America today.
> 44.The annual health costs to America stemming from
> obesity are $240 billion. The costs are exactly double
> fast food chain revenues.
> 45.Between 1984 and 1993, the number of fast food
> restaurants doubled in Great Britain. Obesity doubled
> over the same period.
> 46.The EU found that 95% of the ads there encouraged kids
> to eat foods high in sugar, salt, and fat. The company
> running the most ads aimed at children was McDonald's.
> 47.According to consumers polled by Restaurants and
> Institutions magazine in 2000, the lowest-quality food of
> any major hamburger chain was served at McDonald's.
>
> Most of these facts are culled from Fast Food Nation by Eric
> Schlosser. The book is extensively footnoted with citations for
> the above.
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> © Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
> 398 60th Street, Oakland, CA 94618 USA
> Tel: 510-654-4400 Fax: 510-654-4551
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