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Date Posted: 06:14:59 05/21/02 Tue
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.
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