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Anti-McDonald's Demos

Time and place:
Most Thursdays from 6 to 7.30pm at McDonald's, 25-27 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1. Tube: Piccadilly Circus.

To join these demos text or phone 07960 036044 to confirm that the demo is on. Leaflets handed out include the famous "What's Wrong With McDonald's" leaflet, as well as anti-meat leaflets.

For more information email antimcdonalds@doramail.com or phone 07960 036044.

The poem below was sent to the Shaftesbury Avenue protesters:

The golden arches of greed

I see another person march  
Through the dastardly golden arch  
Ordering another super size Big Mac  
Whilst the cue of people wait in line  
To slap Ronald's greasy corporate back.  
So that another obese waistline swells  
Whilst ruining the future of our beautiful world  
Never caring for the people they slowly kill  
As long as they back away from the responsibility  
For the sound of the till.  

As another freeze dried piece of modified hen  
Sizzles with corn in the same oil  
Isn't it time that cheapskate,  
Unhygienic tactics like these  
Were quickly bought to the boil?  
As another young child wheezes  
Just adding to a populations list of diseases  
By sucking in the impressionable  
It's tragic the lengths you will for money  
You really would put anything on the table
Hanging on any gimmick  
That you mass advertise and deploy  
It just seems as if the trusted public  
And their health has now become your toy.  

Seeing them getting hooked,  
Scoffing on your junk  
Watching as their moods  
Swung and sunk  
Anyway are we really sure what we are eating?  
Maybe include that in your next meeting!
Instead of just thinking about  
What you can make or save  
And start considering your customers  
Instead of sending them all to an early grave.

Daniel North