McRip-Off

Let's talk about McDonald's for a second. 

First are McDonald's Values in action 

and then What really happens..

McCruelty

The Road to Sustainability

McDonald’s never stops working toward improving our environmental performance...and reaping “double green” benefits around the world.

McDonald’s supports the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Much of the soy-based animal feed used to fatten fast-food chickens is grown in the Amazon. Grain is fed to cattle in South American countries to produce the meat in McDonald's hamburgers. Cattle consume 10 times the amount of grain and soy that humans do: one calorie of beef demands ten calories of grain. Of the 145 million tons of grain and so fed to livestock, only 21 million tons of meat and by-products are used. The waste is 124 million tons per year at a value of 20 billion US dollars. It has been calculated that this sum would feed, clothe and house the world's entire population fo one year. Every year an area of rainforest the size of Britain is cut down or defoliated, and burnt. Globally, one billion people depend on water flowing from these forests, which soak up rain and release it gradually. The disaster in Ethiopia and Sudan is at least partly due to uncontrolled deforestation. In Amazonia - where there are now about 100,000 beef ranches - torrential rains sweep down through the treeless valleys, eroding the land and washing away the soil. The bare earth, baked by the tropical sun, becoms useless for agriculture. McDonald's is one 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.
 

Amazon Rainforest after deforestation

Greener Than Ever

McDonald’s strives to provide eco-friendly workplaces and restaurants that reflect our sustainability goals and demonstrate environmental stewardship in the workplace.

In 2007, the employees of an Orlando-area McDonald’s were caught on camera pouring milk into the milkshake machine out of a bucket labeled “Soiled Towels Only.”

Recycle, Renew

We start with a three-pronged approach: reduce, reuse, and recycle; and we’re committed to diverting as much waste as possible from the solid waste stream.

McDonald's 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. And you can even take a look at their recycling bins at the restaurants - yes, there are separate sections for plastic, paper etc, but they all go into the same garbage bag... And next to the fries, there is a bin that says: "It's okay to waste fries!"

Animal Welfare

We consider our priorities for food safety, quality and costs - together with our ethical, environmental and economic responsibilities - when we make purchasing decisions and evaluate supplier performance. This includes animal welfare. 

How many cows does it take to keep the world loaded with Big Macs? According to a brief video inside one of McDonald’s 6 meat processing plants, about 500,000 pounds of beef is processed per day, per plant. If an average beef cow weighs 1,150 pounds, that means 2609 cows a day are turned into burgers. That’s 952,285 cows per year. And that’s just in the United States.This means the constant slaughter, day by day, of animals born and bred solely to be turned into McDonald's products. Some of them - especially chickens and pigs - spend their lives in the entirely artificial conditions of huge factory farms, with no access to air or sunshine and no freedom of movement. Their deaths are bloody and barbaric. In the slaughterhouse, animals often struggle to escape. Cattle become frantic as they watch the animal before them in the killing-line being prodded, beaten, electrocuted, and knifed.

Chicken McNuggets everyone!!

It started with you. Moms and dads are trying hard to get their kids to be more nutrition-minded. We listened. That’s why our popular Happy Meals will have fewer calories and include a side of fruit. It’s why our Chicken McNuggets now have less sodium. And why our national communications to kids will champion their well-being. And that’s just the beginning. We’re committed to giving you more delicious choices to feel good about in the months and years to come. Because we all have the same goal: making sure the things your kids love are things you can feel good about.

Real food is perishable. With time, it begins to decay. It’s a natural process, it just happens. Beef will rot, bread will mold. But what about a McDonald’s burger? Karen Hanrahan saved a McDonald’s burger from 1996 and, oddly enough, it looks just as “appetizing” and “fresh” as a burger you might buy today. Is this real food? The processed fat in McDonald’s food (and other fast food) promotes endothelial dysfunction for up to 5 hours after eating the meal. Endothelial tissue is what lines the inside of blood vessels. Eating a McDonald’s chicken sandwich, it will give you about 2/3 of the recommended daily amount of sodium. And if you actually do have high blood pressure, that’s way more than you really need. To achieve the artificial conformity of food that looks and feels and tastes exactly the same in any outlet anywhere in the world, McDonald's require that their "fresh lettuce leaf", for example, is treated with twelve different chemicals just to keep it the right colour at the right crispness for th right length of time.  

It might as well be a bit of plastic!

McDonald's food is so lacking in bulk it is hardly possible to chew it. Even their own figures show that a "quarter-pounder" is 48% water. This sort of fake food encourages over-eating, and the high sugar and sodium content can make people develop a kind of addiction - a 'craving'. That means more profit for McDonald's, but constipation, clogged arteries and heart attacks for many customers.

Oh, and one more thing... Take a look at the ingredients of the BicMac "Secret Sauce". (definitely a secret, i have no idea what half of those ingredients even are, do you know what you are eating?)

Soybean oil, pickle relish [diced pickles, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, vinegar, corn syrup, salt, calcium chloride, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate (preservative), spice extractives, polysorbate 80], distilled vinegar, water, egg yolks, high fructose corn syrup, onion powder, mustard seed, salt, spices, propylene glycol alginate, sodium benzoate (preservative), mustard bran, sugar, garlic powder, vegetable protein (hydrolyzed corn, soy and wheat), caramel color, extractives of paprika, soy lecithin, turmeric (color), calcium disodium EDTA (protect flavor).

Thank you for your cooperation?! Fuck You McDonald's

Beauty and The Beast

About beauty, about real beauty

(Video by Doiden)

Taking it over to a sanitised laboratory bench, Dr Tamsin Decker supervises as solution is squirted into the defenceless animal’s eyes. She has done this many times before — and will watch as it’s done again until the rabbit shows some side-effects: pain, irritation, bleeding perhaps, and eventually, possibly, blindness.On other days, Dr Decker might be required to inject mice, birds or rats with toxins to see how long it takes them to die, or to record what happens to their foetuses.‘I felt numb — no, guilty,’ she admits afterwards. ‘It isn’t as if the end justified the means. We weren’t researching some cancer cure here. We were testing a well-known chemical that has been used in household products for more than 100 years...... "  

 Read more from DailyMail.co.uk

Contrary to popular belief, scientific testing on animals is not a thing of the past. Inside the EU borders, about 12 million animals are used in animal testing each year. Majority of these testings are done by universities and research labs under "basic research", about 10% of animals tested are tested for chemicals for consumers - makeup, washing liquid, toothpaste (even though EU banned all animal testing on cosmetics 2003). Reason for animal testing in rise is the legislation about chemicals used in manufacturing - the safety of the chemicals used needs to be scientifically proved. EU parliament approved the project called REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of all Chemicals) in 2006, where chemicals that are brought or produced inside EU more than a ton a year need to have a wide research of all ingredients - even products that we've been using years and years. Because of REACH project, there is about 30 000 ingredients waiting to be tested - majority of these ingredients have already been in the market for a long time. And how many animals do you think we need for all this, a hundred, a thousand, a million? Estimated 13 million. 13 million lives. First of all, do we really need all these toxins in our life that can cause damage to someones health? And second of all, if we have been using that cehmical for hundreds of years, don't you thin kwe would know if it's not safe for us already? Oh but that's why we are testing defenceless animals, so we can tell if it's safe or not, sorry, i forgot. And third of all, would it not be wiser to use all the money that they use to re-test all the cehmicals to improve the cruelty-free methods of testing chemicals? There is about 10 000 ingredients that are already proven to be safe in chemical industry- why do we need more? Cosmetics labelling laws are such that companies can make misleading ‘not tested’ claims on packs, which usually only relate to testing of the final product and not to the ingredients. You are the one who needs to make the choice. Don't support animal testing. Don't support companies that support animal testing. Be smarter than that and think about what's really important in your life.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Little cloud of companies that don't use animal testing...

  Amazing Cosmetics Inc.           Avon Products Inc.               Bare Organics

    Be Natural Organics                  Bio Creative Labs                               Beauty Without Cruelty

                   Faith Products                               Freeman           Lifehair                            Raw Gaia

     Cheeky Cosmetics                Color Me Beautiful                                   Cuccio Naturale

                        Dermalogica                                  Dr. Hauschka                            Ecover

And the big names that just don't care...

L´Oreal (Biotherm,Garnier, Helena Rubinstein, Giorgio Armani, Lancôme - Also owners of The Body Shop)

Johnson & Johnson (Listerine, Lubriderm, Neutrogena)

Pfizer

Procter & Gamble (Dolce & Gabbana, Gillette Co. Gucci, Hugo Boss, Lacoste)

Unilever (Comfort, Dove, Axe)

Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer)

Colgate- Palmolive Co

 Full List of companies by PETA