Harming the environment
There's no point in feeling guilty about eating while watching starving children on TV. If you do send money to World Vision, etc, that's morally good but politically useless. It shifts the blame from geovernments and doe snothing to challenge the power of multinational corporations.
McDonald's is one of several giant corporations with investments in vast tracks of land in poor countries, sold to them by dollar-hungry rulers (often military) and privliged elites, evicting the small farmers that live there growing food for their own people.
The power of the US dollar means that in order to buy technology and manufactured goods, poor countries are trapped into producing more and more food for export to the States. Out of 40 of the world's poorest coutries, 36 export food to the USA - the wealthiest.
Some 'Third World' countries, where most children are undernourished, are actually exporting their staple crops as animal feed - ie. to fatten cattle for turning into burgers in the 'First World'. Millions of acres of the best farmland in poor countries are being used for our benefit - for tea, coffee, tobacco, etc. - while people there are starving. McDonald's is directely involved in this economic imperialism, which keeps most black people poor and hungry while many whites grow fat.
Cattle consume 10 times more grain and soy than humans. Of the 145 million tons of grain and soy feed to livestock, only 21 million tons of meat and by-products are used. The waste is 124 million tons per year at a value of 20 billion US dollars.It has been calculated that this sum would feed, clothe and house the world's entire population for one year.
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