Mc Donald's

Because no ranting web log would be complete without banging on about McDonald's. So okay. Here I go.
Sure, their food is probably not the healthiest thing you can eat. They tried a while ago to introduce salads and healthier food. Fair play to them. But it didn't work and they quickly dropped it. And the reason they dropped it was because that's not what people want from McDonald's.
They want a burger and chips. If you don't want a burger and chips, don't go to McDonald's.
Do they destroy rain forests, rip off farmers, exploit the third world, encourage ill-treatment of animals? To be honest, I don't know. I eat meat, so I am not in a position to preach. Because I know that most of the meat that I eat comes from living animals that are treated as a product from the day they are born. That, unfortunately, is an economic necessity in our over-populated world. I would like to think that the chicken I eat led a long and happy life, running about in a farmyard, chasing fat pieces of corn, scattered about by a buxom, red-cheeked farmer's wife who calls them all by name.
But we all know that doesn't happen. What happens is almost too appalling for any of us to contemplate.
If you want to know what really happens, the jobs are quite easily available, if you are willing to work under terrible conditions for minimum wage or less. I guarantee that after a week of this work you will at least consider becoming a vegetarian.
So that's chickens covered. How about cows? I don't know so much about them. They do seem to get to go outside for the day, unlike the poor chickens. But do they really have a good life before they are stunned with a bolt gun and then skinned alive? Hard to say. Maybe they do.
The thing that really annoys me about McDonald's is their insidious advertising.
It is aimed almost entirely at children and is so full of lies! That is not a Happy Burger you are eating. It is a dead cow.
A dead cow.
Now, cows aren't cute like puppies and kittens, but they are living animals, and don't even get me started on pigs, and how they are treated, because that's something I do know about, and believe me, you don't want to hear it.
So, McDonald's, be honest. You kill a load of miserable animals and serve them up as fun food.
I'm not loving it. So I just don't eat there.