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**************** McDONALDS QUOTES *****************
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Quotes are taken from trial updates and various other named
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sources. If you have a contribution for the quote list
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please mail me at <coniberr@cs.man.ac.uk>
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"I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry
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to children everywhere for selling out to concerns who make
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millions by murdering animals."
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-Geoffrey Guiliano, the main Ronald McDonald actor in the
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1980's who quit and publicly apologised
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"A diet high in fat, sugar, animal products and salt, and low in
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fibre, vitamins and minerals,is linked with cancer of the breast
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and bowel and heart disease."
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-McLibel defendants quoting London Greenpeace Factsheet
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"If it is being directed to the public then I would say it is a
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very reasonable thing to say."
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-Dr Sidney Arnott, McDonalds expert witness on cancer
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"it is our objective to dominate the communications area ...
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because we are competing for a share of the customer's mind".
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-Alistair Fairgrieve, McDonalds UK Marketing Services Manager
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-during the McLibel trial
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"you could eat a roll of sellotape as part of a balanced diet"
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-Dr Tim Lobstein, co-director of the Food Commission consumer
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-organisation, giving evidence for the Defence, considering
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-McDonalds line that their food "can be eaten as part of a
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-balanced diet"
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"the reason Japanese people are so short and have yellow skins
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is because they have eaten nothing but fish and rice for two
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thousand years"; "if we eat McDonald's hamburgers and potatoes
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for a thousand years we will become taller, our skin become
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white and our hair blonde".
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McDonalds Japanese President, Den Fujita from the book,
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"Behind the Arches," sanctioned by McDonalds.
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"It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she
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devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to hammer with
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excitement".
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Ray Kroc, McDonalds founder in his autobiography.
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( can anyone confirm this, I haven't read the book ? )
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"On any given day, McDonalds serves less than one half of one
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percent of the world's population. That's not enough. We're like
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Oliver Twist, we want more"
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Michael Quinlan, Chief Executive of McDonalds quoted in
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'The Independent' on 27.4.94
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U.S. McLibel Support Campaign
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Press Office c/o Vermonters Organized for Clean-up
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Box 120, East Calais VT 05650 Phone 802-568-9628
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