A best-known slogan
like「We do it all for you
(also known as You, you're the one) 」has
been criticizing by U. Cal professor Dr.
M. Schudson's famous text
book <Advertising,
The Uneasy Persuasion>
to be a "lie"
—
because that all things
McDonald's had done are for McDonald's themselves.
According to
Wikipedia, McDonald's is often the target of criticism for its menu, its
expansion, and its business practices.
Some comments or criticisms
(most are in Asian media )
include :
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<Fast
Food Menu Price>
9-24-2015
What happens 1 hr. after eating a Big Mac (McDonald's)
After 20 minutes: Adductive sugars - ingredients can cause
obesity, heart disease, etc.
After 30 minutes: Sodium attack on your body
After 40 minutes: Craving for more !
After 60 minutes: Slow digestion - may cause serious harm to
your body especially consuming it on regular basis. It takes about 51 days
to digest trans fat, and takes 3+ days to fully digest a Big Mac - normally
human take 1 - 3 days to digest food.
Full text pls. ref. to Fast Food Menu Price web-site.
☉
Taiwan : low pay for
trainee.
☉ Europe : money
penalty for hiring under-age workers in London, 2001.
☉ Hong Kong :
the lowest pay in whole HK.
☉ China : hourly pay less rmb 1.5, "Mcjob"is the widely known term.
★
profits by politics
allegations
- McDonald's
(together with other fast-food co.s) uses its political influence to increase
their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of
its workers. (2001)
★
ads tech. targets children
Question McDonald's advertising techs targets
children ( mention other fast-food chains, it focused primarily on
McDonald's.) 2001.
★
containers bad
Some food containers in some countries are bad.
★obesity
★unhealthy
food
quite many foods are high fat, high calorific capacity
★cancer
french fries may cause cancer (USA , 2005)
★female
breast
Hormone in meat
- Men may have women breast.
★trans
fats
Wendy’s committed to trans-fat free oil in their US stores in
2006 with KFC following suit last year.
No more in McDonald's US & Canada since May 2008.
★environmental
issue
trans fats
Details please see
Wikipedia, Chinese version.
PS: Below evidence articles are
attached, if you can't read Chinese , suggest to skip the rest of is page
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HK university professor & MinPao
<McDonald's> ice cream
- germs number 600 times Hong Kong legal
standard
Similar things happened quite many times in
recent years, reported by Min Pao, one of largest news in HK.
McDonald's
admitted their mistakes to HK court-house.
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documentary
Director award,
the 24thSundance
Film Festival
「Super
Size Me」against <McDonald's>
The film depicts an experiment he conducted in 2003, in which he
ate three
McDonald's meals a day every day (and nothing
else) for 30 days, mandatory that he take the "super-size" option whenever it
was offered.
The director gained 25 pounds (11 kg), suffered
liver dysfunction and
depression. Spurlock's supervising physicians
noted the effects caused by his high-fat,
diet—one even comparing it to a case of severe binge
alcoholism. After the
completion of the project, it took Spurlock fourteen months to return to his
normal weight.
Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic
of
obesity in society, and that the company was failing to provide nutritional
information about its food for its customers. Six weeks after the film
premiered, McDonald's announced that it was eliminating the super size option,
and was creating the adult happy meal.
Morgan Spurlock mentioned in
Asia media, bad results included:
transFats反脂
★
affect his sexual-life
performance (Liberty Times of Taiwan, aug. 19, 2004)
★
depression
★ epidemic
of
obesity (June
16, 2004
Taiwan Central Radio net)
★ blood
pressure (June
16, 2004
Taiwan Central Radio )
trans fats
garbage foods damage IQ?
Epoch Times reported
researches in Canada that garbage food may hurt youngsters' brain.
Xinhua Net, North America Sina Net and a
Hong Kong Phoenix TV news reported a McDonald's restaurant had not provided with
toilet tissue for 40+ minutes, which means, there's no workers clean the toilet
as schedule - suppose do clean job for each 15 minutes.
Almost all customers answered the newspaper reporters that this
McDonald's is very dirty, smells, piss on floor.
(1) McDonald's world mascot figures (see
below) — A farmer to represent Taiwan's image, seemed
not quite right.
(2)
McDonald's in Zhuhai China, always can took my any order, in KFC of
China I can select any part of chicken, ie., upper leg, to take.
However, Chiayi
(Taiwan's toppest tourism city) main-station nearby McDonald's even doesn't have America-style coffee sometimes,
not to mention regular chicken leg, they only offer spicy(hot) chicken
legs when I was twice there (Oct. 2008).
(3) McDonald's Taipei, Dun-hua branch
bad services more than once.
(summer, 2009 )
pic: McDonald's made world mascots, the
paper-sheet is little different in HK, Macau and Taiwan
