Fast Food Boycott: June 1 - 8

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Fast Food Boycott June 2001

 

Join the efforts to RESHAPE the way fast food companies treat their

consumers & employees. Participate in FAST FOOD BOYCOTT 2001. June 1

- 8.

 

Every year, Americans get ill from food poisoning. Many die. The

people most likely to die from E. Coli 0157:H7 are children and

seniors. These illnesses are largely preventable. According to

Centers for Disease Control estimates, up to 20,400 cases of E. coli

infection and 500 deaths from E. coli disease occur annually in the

United States. Nearly three-quarters of all cases are directly linked

to ground beef.

 

The meatpacking industry is non-unionized. Meatpacking is the most

dangerous job in the US. Yet, it relies on a largely unskilled,

illiterate, and migrant populations to perform these dangerous tasks.

That is why your meat is unsafe

to eat. In a recent USDA sample, 78% of meat contained bacteria from

feces.

 

The same conditions that caused the Mad Cow outbreak in Europe are

rampant in the US. Cows are designed to feed off of grass. Yet, the

last three months of their lives are spent in overcrowded pens gorging

on grain mixed with animal blood, brains, and bones.

 

We demand that McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, KFC and Taco Bell

make these necessary changes:

 

- Ensure safe, clean meat, rigidly tested for E. Coli 0157:H7 and

other contaminants

- Impose stricter testing of Salmonella on egg suppliers

- Demand that suppliers stop using animal by-products in cattle feed.

This leads to prions, the protein in the brain that causes Mad Cow.

- Give priority purchasing to suppliers of organic, free-range,

grass-fed cattle

- Lobby for an increased minimum wage rate

- Lobby for a unionized system of meatpacking in the US

- Increased compensation for poultry farmers. Most now live below

poverty level.

 

Forward this to all your friends. Please participate and become more

educated about the threats of the fast food industry to your health.