McDonald’s promove os seus alimentos como ' nutritivos ', mas a realidade é que é má alimentação valores elevados de gordura, de açúcar e sal, e baixo na fibra e nas vitaminas. Uma dieta deste tipo é ligada com um maior risco de doenças de coração, de cancro, de diabetes e das outras doenças. Os alimentos contem também muitos aditivos químicos, alguns de que podem causar Hiperactividade nas crianças.
Os trabalhadores na indústria de fast food com os salários mais baixos são os do McDonald’s. A maioria dos empregados (jovens e pessoas pouco qualificadas) que tem poucas opções do trabalho são assim forçadas para aceitar esta exploração, e são obrigadas a sorrir demais

McDonald promove continuamente os produtos de carne, incentivando povos comer mais frequentemente carne, que desperdiça mais e mais recursos dos alimentos. 7 Milhões de toneladas de grão são alimentadas aos animais produzindo apenas 1 milhão de toneladas da carne. As florestas espalhadas todo o mundo estão sendo destruídas a um ritmo alucinante por companhias multinacionais. O metano emitido pelo gado elevou a indústria da carne para um dos principais contribuintes do aquecimento. A agricultura intensiva moderna é baseada no uso de pesados produtos químicos que são prejudiciais ao ambiente. As crianças são atraídas (por um palhaço e os seus amigos) desde muito novas para o consumo com a promessa dos brinquedos e parques infantis (arrastando os seus pais também para o consumo). 5 Dos 6 continentes têm McDonald’s, e é certo que a Antárctica não fosse coberto de gelo teriam também McDonald’s.

A cadeia de fast food McDonald`s lucrou 555,9 milhões de euros no primeiro trimestre do ano, o que compara com os 390,7 milhões de euros registados no período homólogo de 2004, anunciou a empresa esta quinta-feira.
O valor equivale a 56 cêntimos de dólar por acção, contra 40 cêntimos de dólar por título. Os analistas esperavam um lucro por acção de 43 cêntimos de dólar.
O resultado de exploração atingiu os 694,8 milhões de euros, o que equivale a um incremento de 6% face ao mesmo período do ano passado. O volume de negócios cresceu 9,2%, para os 3,7 mil milhões de euros.


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I’ve de cide to do some research about this issue in the internet, and I hope it really means something.

Hope that in a few years, I’ll have to appologise; because McDonalds wound do you harm; That it caused a significant impact in worldwide community; That it was a different Multinational company, that achieved greatness using a good product;

I’DON’T WANNA BE RIGHT!
McDonald's promote their food as 'nutritious', but the reality is that it is junk food - high in fat, sugar and salt, and low in fibre and vitamins. A diet of this type is linked with a greater risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other diseases. Their food also contains many chemical additives, some of which may cause ill-health, and hyperactivity in children. Don't forget too that meat is the cause of the majority of food poisoning incidents. Workers in the fast food industry are paid low wages. McDonald's do not pay overtime rates even when employees work very long hours. Pressure to keep profits high and wage costs low results in understaffing, so staff have to work harder and faster. As a consequence, accidents (particularly burns) are common. The majority of employees are people who have few job options and so are forced to accept this exploitation, and they're compelled to 'smile' too! Not surprisingly staff turnover at McDonald's is high, making it virtually impossible to unionise and fight for a better deal, which suits McDonald's who have always been opposed to Unions.
Vast areas of land in poor countries are used for cash crops or for cattle ranching, or to grow grain to feed animals to be eaten in the West. This is at the expense of local food needs. McDonald's continually promote meat products, encouraging people to eat meat more often, which wastes more and more food resources. 7 million tons of grain fed to livestock produces only 1 million tons of meat and by-products. On a plant-based diet and with land shared fairly, almost every region could be self-sufficient in food. Forests throughout the world - vital for all life - are being destroyed at an appalling rate by multinational companies. McDonald's have at last been forced to admit to using beef reared on ex-rainforest land, preventing its regeneration. Also, the use of farmland by multinationals and their suppliers forces local people to move on to other areas and cut down further trees.
McDonald's are the world's largest user of beef. Methane emitted by cattle reared for the beef industry is a major contributor to the 'global warming' crisis. Modern intensive agriculture is based on the heavy use of chemicals which are damaging to the environment. Every year McDonald's use thousands of tons of unnecessary packaging, most of which ends up littering our streets or polluting the land buried in landfill sites. Children are lured in (dragging their parents behind them) with the promise of toys and other gimmicks. Instead of everyone sharing the world's resources for the benefit of all, multinationals like McDonald's just want to use these resources to make profits for themselves. Thanks to Globalization McDonalds has thousands upon thousands of establishment’s worldwide. 6 out of the 7 continents have McDonalds, I am sure if Antarctica was not covered in ice that they would have one there too. They use a lot of packaging that is cooled down using chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which can actually damage the Ozone layer .Any establishment (like all fast-"food" establishments) owned by a group of people, whether they are shareholders or whether it is privately owned by individuals, if they are not local but are going into an area that is not their home and extracting money from the locals while at the same time taking business away from local establishments to concentrate this money into their own hands elsewhere, is evil. Everything you see in a print ad is fairly accurate-provided you ignore the 20 odd hours spent in retouching every major print ad campaign they make. Removing brown lettuce, discoloured saauce, burnt meat etc....
McDonald's has 555,9 million Euros in the first 3 months of 2005 (the profits in the same period of the year before were 390,7 million Euros.

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