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McDonald's is a business, out to make profit. If you read through the original posted link, they are saying that if they want to remain in business for the long term, and therefore to make profit in the long term, they need to adjust their practises such that they are sustainable.
If you think the average corner shop owner or independent restaurant is doing more than Maccy D's to save the world then you are deluding yourself.
At the end of the day the meat industry cannot be entirely environmentally friendly as farming cattle creates a lot of waste, the animals have to be transported to slaughterhouses and they need a lot of food and water.
I don't see how being sustainable could work for McDonalds, not without exploiting anything else. Maybe they could switch their cleaning products to ecoer or something... But as far as meat is concerned, sorry... But fast food is far from environmentally friendly.
But you are right with smaller businesses. Larger businesses blatantly have a greater potential to make changes to the world because they are the ones already destroying it.
For the record:
McDonald's burgers are 100% beef. All our products are from British free-range farmers. Yes, it's unhealthy, but there is a healthy option (no, it really is), and if people would rather have their Bigger Big Mac with large fries and a chocolate shake, then that's their problem. It makes us money therefore we sell it OMGZ WE WANT TO MAKE MONEY IT'S A CRIME. I don't get why everyone's all so "it's a PR stunt, they want to make more money". So? If it was a company everyone approved of, you wouldn't be saying it, would you? So McDonald's want to make money, so does everyone.
And Sel, love, please don't say you want them to go under, I need money
I can't believe I just defended McDonald's...
We aren't pure evil, honest.
(And tbf, I only get £4.25 an hour with no overtime pay because our franchisee decided that she wants lots more money, and she also charges 20p extra for limited edition McFlurry's, and 10p more for double cheeseburgers...)
Never knew that McDonalds cows are free-range, are their chickens and pigs free-range too?
And making money is not a crime... But the way they go about it can be, unless you're willing to say the same thing about Coca Cola killing off Trade Union workers, Nestle telling mothers to bottlefeed when water sources are not safe, Disney's sweatshops or L'Oreal's cosmetic testing.
But wait... they all only want to make money too, right?
Btw... I used to work in Burger King and it is nothing to do with "we". As an employee for a company like that, it is whatever "they" on top tell us to do for our money (I was on £3.90 at the time). Their ethical code have nothing to do with the people who serve customers, nothing at all.
As for losing marks about not smiling, saying hello and the like, were such tests widespread, most of the retail industry's staff would be out of their jobs! This is a bizarre defence, to say the least. Everything is marked with the date and time of production, of when it was refrigerated, of when it was cooked, of use by dates? Every sector in the retail industry that sells food has to do this - whether it be a small shop bakery or a huge company like McDonalds. If they don't do this, they'd be shut down by those bastards at trading standards.
Anyway, if you've read the McDonalds link, you'll know that this isn't about ethics at all. It's about sustainable business. Why do you think that is?
According to the poster on the wall in the crew room, yes. Shows you where everything comes from, what comes from where etc. Local farmers etcetcetc.
I don't agree with the methods, but everyone was saying how this whole reducing emissions thing (which is good, surely) was just a publicity stunt, which was what I was getting at.
And also, for the record, at the Maccy's I work at, there is a lot of emphasis put on team work and that we're just as important as the big people up top. Hence GapBuster.
It's why they put me on drive-thru when I'm having a bad day...
Still won't believe that their animals (especially chickens) are free-range until I see the farm with my own eyes. Just because something says 'free-range' also doesn't mean that they are treated well and laws on that can be slack (although theUK is better than America for animal rights). It does not mean that they won't be pumped full of drugs, or have their beaks chopped off. Free range only means that they have daytime access to open air runs and this isn't for all of their life, only part of it. Beef cattle are not treated quite as badly.
I know I'm arguing against the meat industry, personally I have no issues with meat-eaters, but I don't trust McDonalds to be upholding good animal rights and still hold true to the arguement that a company that makes beefburgers cannot be environmentally friendly.
There is more to consider than just carbon emissions.
grass fed free fucking range beef pisses meoff all these misconceptions the jump on the latest trendy bandwaggon lot are always jumping on. ...thankyou mcdonnies worker.
supporting the local farmers reducing the fucking footprint ...informed customers obviously have an impact.
more so than the misinformed.
SG - I would say please and thank you regardless, not just because I'm at work. It pisses me right off when I take the time to get someone their fucking Big-Mac-No-Pickle-Extra-Cheese-Extra-Lettuce and they don't say thank you when I give it to them. But Maccy's are BIG on the whole saying hello and good bye and smiling thing. REALLY BIG.
If I'm doing far and above my line of duty I expect a thanks. I'm seriously on the verge of just not trying it anymore.
reluctantly.