[Growltigger]

Instar is exactly correct. Corporations need the same rights as individuals if only for the customer's own protection - so they can sue the company!! you couldn't do that if the company had no separate legal identity!

As to customers, there is no company in the world that has such a monopoly that you cannot exercise your legal right to object to that company by not buying its products.

As to McDonalds, I dont have any real objection to them at all. I dont eat it, and am not particularily happy when the "golden arches" are suspended 50 feet in the sky glowing cos I am anti-light pollution.

I suppose the only thing I dont like about McDonalds (other than the burgers) is the marketing bias they have toward children, but then KFC tends to do the same, and I do like Kentucky Fried Rodent