McVegan (was: Cranks Closed)

[Guest guest]

For me, veganism is more than just diet - its a code of ethics, and

although not " vegan issues " I inlcude the Earth and human rights in

my code of ethics, which is why I would never support a company like

McD's even if they opened up a McVegan outlet that only sold vegan

products.

 

I prefer to support shops that I consider to be ethical first - I use

the supermarkets as a last resort, and there are some companies that

I will never support, McD's being one of them.

 

Your £1 that you spend on your vegan burger from macdonalds is just a

drop in their vast profits - I don't think its gonna make them think

about changing thier ways. And every pound spent there is another

pound that could have been spent positively at a more ethical place.

McD's only have a vegan burger because they want your money - they

don't give a toss about your ethics (having worked for some large

companies I can tell you that your reverse psychology idea just won't

work) - they just see you as another market to derive profit from.

Whereas the health food shop/cafe (well some of them anyway - like

the independents) are in it for your health and the environment etc.

Maybe this is why the vegan-owned 13th Note in Glasgow is now

threatened with closure - all the vegans went to McDonalds, and soon

there won't be a choice - its McD's or nothing, and they'll probably

still recall their vegan burgers anyway. Its definitely a reason that

Cranks sited in their closure statement (something abiout veggie food

being widely available and their market share falling - although they

were owned by a chicken chain so I'm not really bothered about them).

 

 

flame on

 

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Rob

 

vegan-network, " Jayne Blissett " <jayneblissett@z...>

wrote:

>

> 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?