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May /26/2009
Mar /22/2009
Help us track down the clown! We need your help to figure out exactly how McDonald's uses one of the world's most recognized marketing icons to get kids hooked on Big Macs and other fare that fuels the epidemic of childhood obesity and diet-related diseases.
McDonald’s and its competitors have a long history of making fortunes while contributing to debilitating childhood illnesses, such as type 2 diabetes. Read more about the role of McDonald’s and other fast food giants in the global epidemic of diet-related disease.
Fast food transnationals like McDonald’s hook kids early through manipulative marketing, locating restaurants near schools, and serving fast food in schools. See how they do it.
When independent scientists produce research that is damning to the fast food industry, McDonald’s simply finds ways to co-opt science in their favor. Learn how the industry produces and uses junk science.
McDonald's and other fast food giants have long fought our right to know about what’s in the meals they serve us. Why? If we knew, we might be pretty disturbed at what we’d find.
Even as advocates work to make nutritious food available to more of our children, fast food giants like McDonald’s manipulate the political process to keep its high-calorie, low-nutrition food cheap and available everywhere we go. Learn how.
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