: I keep seeing all of these anti-McDs sentiments posted, and I would just like to inject a small comment on some of the positives of that company. Each year in victoria, McDs raises over 20 million dollars for the Royal Childrens Hospital. This is money desperately needed by the thousands of children treated there each week. After the government has cut back hospital funding so far, can our medical institutions survive without the backing of these multi-national corporations?: --
: McSpotlight: McDonald's annual advertising budget is well over 2 billion dollars annually. What fraction of 2 billion is 20 million?; how much do you think that 20 million dollars represents to McDonald's; especially given that they can write it off as tax-deductible?
: Would it not be more responsible to stop aiming adverts at children too young to judge and instead encourage them to eat a healthy diet while growing up?
: After all, a healthier diet would mean less people in hospital due to diet-related disease. That's less heart attacks, less cancers, less obesity, less food poisoning, less allergies...think of the money that would save the Australian taxpayer...
FIRST OF ALL NO ONE TELLS YOU WHERE TO EAT THAT IS YOUR OWN CHOICE IF YOU SEE AN AD FOR DRUGS ALL THE TIMEARE YOU GONNA GO OUT AND DO IT???ALSO YOU SEEM TO BE FORGETTING THAT MCDONALDS ALSO HAS A PLACE CALLED RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE WHERE THEY HAVE PARENTS OF VERY SICK CHILDREN STAY THEIR SO THEY CAN BE CLOSE TO THEIR CHILDREN WHILE THEY ECIEVE TREATMENT FOR CANCER AND OTHER HORRIBLE DISEASES,MAYBE INSTEAD OF TRASHING THE MCDONALDS ON LONG ISLAND LIKE YOU DID WHY DONT YOU TAKE SOME OF THAT MONEY AND CONTRIBUTE IT TO THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE AND DO SOME GOOD. I LOVE ANIMALS TO BUT TO GO OUT AND TRASH PEOPLES BUISNESSES JST MAKES YU WHAT YOU ARE TRYONG TO PROTECT AND THAT IS ANIMALS!!! YOU DONT LIKE THEIR FOOD STAY OUT NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO COME IN!!!!
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McSpotlight:
Question 1. Freedom of speech - is this good or bad?
Question 2. If there is reason to believe that there is a public health risk in the food, is it not the citizen's duty to raise the alert?
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