MCDONALD'S AND CENSORSHIP

That this House notes with alarm that, while the McDonald's Hamburger Corporation suppresses criticism by frequent recourse to libel writs, it spends $1 billion annually on advertising and promoting junk food, whilst also making grandiose, hypocritical and sometimes false claims about its 'concern' over environmental and social matters; notes that McDonald's causes environmental damage and social problems by producing mountains of unnecessary packaging, not recycled after use, by promoting the type of food and diet linked to tooth decay (sugar), children's hyperactivity (E number additives), heart disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer (high levels of fat, sugar and salt, low levels of fibre and vitamins), and food poisoning (meat), by relying on cattle ranching, some of which is on ex-rainforest land, and methane emissions which are a major cause of global warming, by employing advertising techniques exploiting children, by exploiting workers with low pay, poor conditions, authoritarian management and opposition to trades unions and by being responsible for the unnecessary and cruel deaths of billions of animals; and notes that the company has misled the public or lied about their use of ex-rainforest land beef, chemicals in their food, lack of recycling of packaging and poor nutritional quality of their food.