All it took was national bankruptcy, but they've done it: McDonald's is quitting the country. The article describes this momentous event as a 'blow', which I don't get. They're leaving because the cost of importing all the 'food' from Germany is prohibitive due to the exchange rate and taxation - but that's just because everything is preprepared and identical rather than just sacks of onions and mince to be made in situ.
In any case, a local chain will replace it, using locally sourced ingredients. Icelanders will still be able to contract heart disease, but the economy will actually benefit from profits staying in the country and workers might even be able to join a union!
Let's make the same happen here!
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McDonalds are no angels but, in the UK, all their milk is organic, they recycle all their cooking fat into biodiesel, their coffee is rainforest alliance etc
Burger King? KFC? They do nothing because McDonalds get blamed for everything.
As for heart disease - Is a Big Mac meal really any worse for you than a big slab of quality cheese and a glass of fine wine? Of course not. Healthy diet is about balance not denial. It is ridiculously oversimplistic to blame fast food companies for the obesity problem.
Incidentally, a scientist in Sweden recreated the film Supersize Me with a group of students. None of them showed any of the ill effects Spurlock did in the film.
Locally sourced? Whale meat is locally sourced in Iceland. Is that environmentally sound? What about the Norwegian catch? Is that cool and groovy Socialist whale?
Vole Vole Vole. You are far too intelligent to fall down the "I personally don't like it so we should ban it" school of thought (McDonalds, fashion, hairstyles, flying to Costa Brava) while finding excuses for things you do like (cheese, Dr Marten boots, books, newspapers, flying to Norway)
I apologise if this is too serious a reply to a simple bit of schadenfraude on your part but the demonisation of one or two large companies is a particular bugbear of mine.
Love, as always,
Ben
I love you Ben. Really, I do.
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