: The principal wrong is the use of violence. Violent measures have rarely achieved anything lasting, whereas non-violent means often have lasting effects. The work of Gandhi, Martin Luther King and others have had effects which have shaped our generations and will continue to last into the future. I agree that non-violence is the way to go but I wonder who you're respnding to. It's not McSpotlight, because they certainly don't advocate violence against McDonalds or anyone else. At the same time I doubt that Ghandi or the King would do what you propose--creating a business that competes with McDonald's. Ghandi was a libertarian socialist (anarchist) who made his own clothes from scratch because he didn't like the fact that store-bought clothes were imported from Britain. I have a hard time visualizing him or a Civil Rights and religious leader like MLKJ starting, ala Ray Kroc, a multinational corporation to do battle with McDonalds. McDonalds is *very* profitable. It has many advantages in business like a disregard for people, animals, the earth, your health, and the truth. Such things are detrimental to a large corporation in today's global, capitalist economy. In order to compete with them you would have to do the same things. Far better to attack McD's where they are deficient, their twisted morality that puts profits before everything else.
: A being if you will with a collective intelligence and ability to function without one or more of its parts. Therefore, by attacking one farmer, another will step up to take the open place. It is simple economics. McDonald's pays the bills. The way to beat them is obvious and this web site has begun the attack.
Whaa? You make McDonalds sound like the Borg. I refuse to be assimilated!
: Take away the demand and there will be no need for the supply.
I agree that we should try to take away the demand, but rather than trying to play their game, global capitalism, I prefer to try to educate consumers about McDonalds through activism and not eat there myself. There is already "no need for the supply".
