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Originally posted by DavidG:
So what's with McDonalds making the list? Don't like it don't go there. I've been there about once in the Last couple years. Now if they were like MS and say used illegal business practices to ensure that I had to have a Bic Mac because every meal I ordered anywhere in the world had to be eaten with a Big Mac and the Big Mac cause me all kinds of problems then I'd be pissed.
McDonalds is easy no ignore or avoid. MS not so much.

McDonald's because of their buying power has a HUGE influence on the way our food is produced so even if you never set foot in one if affects what you eat. There are many negatives examples of why we should care, but I will provide a positive one: McDonald's is one of the largest consumers of eggs and they decided not to use eggs from battery chickens - it's turned the egg industry on its head and battery chickens will soon be a thing of the past.

If you don't know - battery chickens are kept in a dark cage for their entire existance, they get stir crazy so their beaks are burned off so they don't peck themselves to death, their feet get fused to the cage, etc. A gruesome existance for a chicken. One might care, though, because all the anti-biotics the chicken needs to survive in this existance is passed on to us.

Anyway - an egg mcmuffin hits the spot now and then.