CHICAGO — Undercover animal rights activists exposed shocking cruelty to chickens at McDonald’s egg supplier, prompting the fast food giant to cut ties to the US firm after the video was released Friday. “Unfortunately, much of the abuse we documented is not only standard, it’s legal,” said Nathan Runkle, director…
Reason links to a new study purporting to show that increased fast food consumption is not linked to poverty. Unfortunately, the study uses consumption figures from 1994-96. That wouldn't be a big deal, except that McDonald's didn't launch its Dollar Menu until 2002, at which point McDonald's consumption skyrocketed. Reacting to…
Only a few years after McDonald’s became public enemy number one for serving up almost cartoonish amounts of food to American consumers, it’s back on top, becoming the recession’s shining star of cheap food. I can’t help but feel this is the Walmartization of dining, the biggest bulk buyer of…
I have to recommend this recent episode of “This American Life” about two women who were switched in the hospital when they were born in 1951, and didn’t find out until 1994. I tuned in, figuring it would be interesting to hear about the fallout from such a revelation, but…
Dapper Don Wildmon and Co. have launched a boycott against McDonald’s for being too pro-homosexual. Of course you’d expect a lot of bluster right out of the box, but with this ludicrous disclaimer the AFA is already on the defensive: What the boycott of McDonald’s IS NOT about This boycott…