[100% veg*n ] Cranks Closed (was: Looks like the 13th Note is history)

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I worked at V1 in Nottingham a while back and we looked at the marketing of

similar 'retaurants', obviously i collected the Mcdonalds, and burger King

leaflets.

 

 

From memory the Mc Burger Vegetable was actually vegan but would that make you

want to eat there?

 

 

>Still, aren't McDonalds/Burger King or someone considering a new

>vegan burger?

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>Rob

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>vegan-network, alwbarnes@t... wrote:

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> cranks have gone now

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> Andrew Barnes

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[Guest guest]

The burgers are vegan as long as you don't have mayo

 

I don't like what they do more than anyone else BUT if no-one eats the

burgers then how do we know they won't withdraw then through lack of need. I

do eat in MacDonald's and am proud to be pushing the message that I want a

vegan burger!

 

I still shop in TESCO though they sell battery eggs, have meat and fish

counters and couldn't really give 2 hoots about vegans. BUT if I just shop

in specialist shops then this makes the whole thing really difficult for new

vegans... people without specialist shops.. costs would never come

reasonable and veganism would always be something for hippies!

 

 

I personally feel that maybe we should do a bit a reverse physcology and

praise these big companies for what they are doing - publically that way

it's positive advertising and MAYBE they will want more of that?

 

Thoughts?

alwbarnes [alwbarnes]

21 December 2001 22:52

vegan-network

Re: [100% veg*n ] Cranks Closed (was: Looks like the 13th Note is

history)

 

 

 

 

 

>Still, aren't McDonalds/Burger King or someone considering a new

>vegan burger?

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Jayne Blissett wrote:

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> I still shop in TESCO though they sell battery eggs, have meat and fish

> counters and couldn't really give 2 hoots about vegans. BUT if I just shop

> in specialist shops then this makes the whole thing really difficult for new

> vegans... people without specialist shops.. costs would never come

> reasonable and veganism would always be something for hippies!

 

Sometimes, it's hard to draw up the rough-and-ready league table of

unethical retailers we might want. McDonalds burns down the rainforests,

exploits workers, and is less nutritious than cardboard, but Tescos like

other major supermarkets bears reponsibility for the long live animal

transport that led to the FMD epidemic.

 

> I personally feel that maybe we should do a bit a reverse physcology and

> praise these big companies for what they are doing - publically that way

> it's positive advertising and MAYBE they will want more of that?

 

(Actually, reverse psychology is something else, but I get what you

mean.)

 

> Thoughts?

 

That if we're going to boycott a company to pressure them into acting

ethically, we should keep the target list short enough to have a chance

of attracting mainstream support.

 

It wouldn't do any harm to say " Being vegan is easy - look, the McVeggie

is vegan! " . (Or whatever. As long as it really is. Is it?) We should be

proud of every step we take towards an animal-free lifestyle becoming

mainstream.

 

--

Ian McDonald

 

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