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nosmokes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-13-09 12:58 PM
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24. feeling a litle guilt and shame there for supporting an industry
that routinely is among the top for labor abuse, contributing to global warming, the western diet problem,animal abuse and torture and just plain serving shitty food?

I got nothing to 'get over' but the fact I have principles and stick to them.

What's your excuse?
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  -McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, et al..... Mind_your_head  Dec-11-09 09:36 PM   #0 
  - quite simple.  provis99   Dec-11-09 09:38 PM   #1 
  - Hey, that's the perfect answer. n/t  Jamastiene   Dec-11-09 10:00 PM   #4 
  - and then the conveyor goes right from the toilet to the landfill!!!  ret5hd   Dec-11-09 10:04 PM   #6 
  - There was a great joke on the Simpsons about that.  Initech   Dec-13-09 02:17 PM   #28 
  - GM corn , grown in poisoned soil w/ petro additives is fed, along w/ all sorts of  nosmokes   Dec-11-09 09:53 PM   #2 
  - Soylent Green.........nt  global1   Dec-12-09 12:27 AM   #8 
  - have been boycotting mcd's since 1970-- and rarely eat at any of the other chains  niyad   Dec-12-09 02:03 AM   #10 
  - "no real liberal eats at those places w/ any sort of regularity."  Cessna Invesco Palin   Dec-12-09 05:53 PM   #20 
     - feeling a litle guilt and shame there for supporting an industry  nosmokes   Dec-13-09 12:58 PM   #24 
        - Nope. Sorry. No guilt.  Cessna Invesco Palin   Dec-13-09 03:14 PM   #29 
           - you make no sense  nosmokes   Dec-13-09 04:40 PM   #30 
              - First off, you didn't answer my question.  Cessna Invesco Palin   Dec-13-09 05:41 PM   #31 
  - Sure.  LeftyMom   Dec-11-09 09:54 PM   #3 
  - I recommend you watch: Food, Inc  HCE SuiGeneris   Dec-11-09 10:03 PM   #5 
  - I was just going to make the same suggestion.  Kat45   Dec-12-09 01:35 AM   #9 
  - More like Ray Kroc.  hobbit709   Dec-12-09 06:03 AM   #15 
     - I know he did but the movie said the McDonald brothers started the whole thing  Kat45   Dec-12-09 05:51 PM   #19 
  - That movie was enough to make me want to dig up  GentryDixon   Dec-12-09 06:07 PM   #21 
  - Incredibly disturbing. The amount of pain and suffering inflicted upon those animals  HCE SuiGeneris   Dec-12-09 07:51 PM   #23 
  - and read "The Omnivore's Dilemma"  dana_b   Dec-13-09 01:02 PM   #25 
  - The first step:  MilesColtrane   Dec-11-09 10:58 PM   #7 
  - Toxins + Food = Foodstuff nt  valerief   Dec-12-09 02:07 AM   #11 
  - If you are asking a serious question, you might want to make it a bit more concrete.  Tesha   Dec-12-09 05:12 AM   #12 
  - my question would be.  onethatcares   Dec-12-09 05:27 AM   #13 
     - MDonalds seem to use Martin-Brower as their main purveyor.  Tesha   Dec-12-09 12:19 PM   #17 
  - Typically, they own the supply chain itself. That is, they own large corporate farms.  Selatius   Dec-12-09 05:56 AM   #14 
  - Road kill cleanup crews feed carcasses into a truck-mounted meat grinder.  HopeHoops   Dec-12-09 09:06 AM   #16 
  - Don't forget Applebees, Chilis, Bob Evans, Cracker Barrell, etc.  JFN1   Dec-12-09 12:46 PM   #18 
  - I live just off of the famous Route 66,  Yavapai   Dec-12-09 06:10 PM   #22 
  - We were just discussing fast food the other night  KamaAina   Dec-13-09 02:01 PM   #26 
  - Not fast food,just good food fast.  Swede   Dec-13-09 02:09 PM   #27 
 

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