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January 25th 2005
McDonald's To Pull Out Of UK Primary Schools
McDonald's is to curtail its presence in UK primary schools as part of a radical overhaul of its national education programme.

January 24th 2005
McDonald's to address UK 'animal sentience' conference
McDonald's, probably the world's largest exploiter and promoter of animals as meat machines, has been booked to address the International Conference on Animal Sentience.

January 24th 2005
Minister talks tough on fast food for children
The public health minister Melanie Johnson last night began tightening the screws on fast food companies to end two-for-one burger promotions and incentives aimed at children.

January 24th 2005
Junk food clampdown threat
The food industry was warned to stop advertising junk food to children within a year or face a clampdown.

January 4th 2005
Octopus cannon targets McDonalds in southern France
Armed with a high-pressure hose and a bucket of octopi, hundreds of protestors in this Mediterranean town pelted a McDonalds restaurant due to open this week with the slimy seafood.

January 4th 2005
McDonald's sued, again
McDonald's sued over corn nuggets fried with chicken

January 4th 2005
Argentina Social Activists Briefly Occupy McDonalds
One of Argentina's most vociferous "piquetero" social activist leaders organized a march to a downtown Buenos Aires McDonald's outlet Thursday to demand 50,000 combo meals for Christmas.

January 4th 2005
McWorld On Trial: You, the Jury - Is McDonald's Destructive to Our Lives, Our Planet, and Our Society?
By Helen Steel and Dave Morris (with contributions from the McLibel Support Campaign). A chapter written for a book: 'At Issue - Fast Food' published this winter in America for school students.

December 20th 2004
Food fight: McDonalds vs.Cleveland Clinic
A Cleveland Clinic wants to oust a McDonald's restaurant from its main hospital building, but the Golden Arches is fighting back.

December 20th 2004
McDonald's sued over corn nuggets fried with chicken
McDonald's faces a class action motion in Haifa for allegedly frying corn nuggets in the same oil used to fry chicken.

October 31st 2004
Blockbuster documentary The Corporation hits the UK
"CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits reveal the corporation’s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures." In cinemas now.

October 15th 2004
Urgent - Oct. 16th Update
McD's workers join in, but face company threats

October 14th 2004
Anti-McDonald's Day [Oct 16th] - Central London rally
Saturday Oct 16th - Central London, UK. Leicester Square, 12-1pm... Worldwide Anti-McDonalds Day - mass leafleting event.

October 14th 2004
McUpdate & call for action on World Anti-McDonald's Day (Oct 16th)
Call for action on World Anti-McDonald's Day Oct 16th; The Global Campaign; McLibel Legal Case Update and What's Wrong with McDonald's leaflet

October 14th 2004
McDonald's views of the Oct 16th Day of Action
Here we reproduce McDonald's UK official views and instructions to stores regarding World Anti-McDonald's Day protests on Oct 16th, and generally...

October 12th 2004
McDonald's profits dive
Burger giant hit by food alerts and PR disasters

October 12th 2004
Noodles firm is lovin' it as McDonalds loses trademark battle
THE United States fast-food giant McDonald's yesterday lost a legal battle in Singapore to stop a food company from distributing products named "MacNoodles", "MacTea" and "MacChocolate".

October 12th 2004
NZ: McDonald's worker demands compensation
A fast food worker who claims she was instructed to take off her shirt by management looking for stolen property is demanding compensation.

October 11th 2004
Anti-McDonald's campaigners pour scorn on McDonald's UK's 30th anniversary celebrations (October 9th)
- and celebrate the 20th year of World Anti-McDonald's Day (October 16th)

October 6th 2004
Corporation film season continues in London
with Salt of the Earth, Brazil, The Take, Roger & Me, Big Rattle in Seattle, The Big One and lots more all showing at the Curzon Soho in the next couple of weeks.

October 1st 2004
The Corporation arrives in London
The Director of the next super doc, The Corporation, will be attending a special screening of his first film, Manufacturing Consent, at the Curzon Cinema in London. The film follows Noam Chomsky and warns of the increasing links between governments, corporations and the use of propaganda. Playing as part of the Curzon's Corporation Season.

September 24th 2004
Court cases, comedians, canals
Pictures from Helen & Dave's adventures in Strasbourg - and ace impressionist Rob Newman adding 35 voices to the upcoming McLibel DVD.

September 17th 2004
Camanche road sprouts Ronald McDonald dolls
Iowa mobile home park experiences Ronald McDonald horror!

September 10th 2004
Two letters from the McLibel 2
These two letters were published today in the Guardian and Daily Telegraph. They appear here in their unamended form.

September 10th 2004
News Roundup - McLibel 2 vs UK Government, European Court, 7 Sept. 2004
A link to all the press items about the European Court Hearing this week in Strasbourgh

September 7th 2004
Battle resumes in McLibel epic
The "McLibel two" have launched a new phase in their epic legal struggle with fast food giant McDonald's - already the longest court case in English legal history.

September 7th 2004
McLibel Two take battle with the law to Brussels
It was one of the sights of the Piccadilly line rush hour for several years in the mid 1990s: Dave Morris and Helen Steel, a postman and an unemployed gardener, preparing legal notes under the armpits of commuters as they headed to the high court to defend themselves ...

September 3rd 2004
McLibel 2 vs UK Government - European Court, Strasbourg - 7th Sept 2004
The McLibel 2 will be attending the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on 7th September 2004. The ECHR have declared admissible their claim that the long running 'McLibel trial' breached their Article 6 right to a fair trial and Article 10 right to freedom of expression.

September 1st 2004
We're simply lovin' it...
London Evening Standard article about the upcoming Euro Court Appeal

August 20th 2004
McUpdate & call for action on World Anti-McDonald's Day (Oct 16th)
Call for Action, The Global Campaign, McLibel legal case update & What's Wrong With McDonald's update text of leaflet

August 20th 2004
McLibel 2 Applicants' Summary/Memorial
The McLibel 2, Helen Steel and Dave Morris, have just completed their Applicants'Summary/Memorial for the European Court of Human Rights hearing next month.The case will be heard in full on 7th September 2004.

August 20th 2004
McUpdate & call for action on World Anti-McDonald's Day (Oct 16th)
Call for Action on Oct 16th, The Global Campaign, McLibel case legal update, and What's Wrong with McDonald's updated text for leaflet

August 15th 2004
Please buy your McLibel DVD now
so the Spanner Films lot have enough cash to finish it by October ;-)

August 4th 2004
To burn off a Big Mac meal you would need to walk 16 miles
A chicken Caesar salad contains 530 calories and carries 18.4 grams of fat - compared with 299 calories and 11.5 grams of fat in a standard cheeseburger.

July 29th 2004
Super Size Me/ McLibel Double Bill, Sept 5th
At the coolest cinema in London. On the day Helen & Dave leave for the European Court of Human Rights. And its the English Premiere of SSM. No wonder tickets are almost sold out.

July 27th 2004
The McLibel Two are preparing for a new legal fight in Europe
Auberon Waugh once declared that the McLibel trial was "the best free entertainment in London"

July 27th 2004
Cambridge McDonald's closure is imminent
Restaurant closure may mean new homes

July 19th 2004
McDonald's in court over trans fats
In what is likely to be a clear warning to food makers, McDonald's faces a damaging court case after a US public interest group accused the fast food giant of falling short of promises to remove artery clogging trans fats used in the cooking process.

June 10th 2004
Seven years later... McLibel: The DVD
With Super Size Me storming the multiplexes - and the McLibel defendants heading for the European Court - it's high time we made a McLibel DVD. There's only £10,000 between us and a feature-packed epic. Fancy helping?

May 14th 2004
Eating responsibly at McDonald's is like going to a strip club for the iced tea.
A film review of Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" by Roger Ebert

May 6th 2004
European Court declares McLibel case admissible
Five years after the McLibel 2 last appeared in Court for their appeal, the European Court of Human Rights has declared admissible their claim that the long running McLibel trial breached their Article 6 right to a fair trial and Article 10 right to freedom of expression.

May 6th 2004
Hold the fries
Morgan Spurlock, the man behind the film "Super Size Me," talks about eating nothing but McDonald's for 30 days straight and how he feels about Big Macs now.

April 22nd 2004
Ronald McDonald quits over GE chicken feed
Auckland: Ronald McDonald entered the Queen Street branch of McDonalds today and handed in his resignation. The dramatic action was taken by the infamous fast food clown in protest at McDonalds use of chicken fed on genetically engineered (GE) soy meal.

April 15th 2004
McDonalds Australian franchise fined over safety breach
A company that runs a McDonalds restaurant in Canberra has been fined $40,000 after pleading guilty to an occupational health and safety breach.

April 1st 2004
US approves 'Cheeseburger bill'
The US House of Representatives has voted 276-139 for a bill that would prevent lawsuits against the food industry for making people fat.

March 29th 2004
Talks start with Coca Cola - Colombian workers hunger strike ends
Colombia: After 276 hours on hunger strike, national talks have been initiated with the Coca Cola corporation in an attempt to reach agreement that will allow the relocation of the workers displaced by its closure of 11 bottling plants.

March 23rd 2004
Coca Cola Workers Hunger Strike - Solidarity and Boycott Update
A hunger strike commenced on Monday 15 March 2004 by Coca-Cola workers in front of the Coca-Cola bottling plants in eight Colombian towns in protest at the company's plans to dismiss 91 workers from the plants. We enclose the latest news.

March 15th 2004
US approves 'Cheeseburger bill'
The US House of Representatives has voted 276-139 for a bill that would prevent lawsuits against the food industry for making people fat.

March 15th 2004
Advertising Standards Authority and VIVA!
Outrageous attack on freedom of speech in ASA's ruling that a vegetarian group's campaign literature against kangaroo slaughter constitutes "advertising".

March 15th 2004
McConfusion
McDonald's Israel reportedly backs down, while McDonald's HQ stonewalls

March 15th 2004
McDonald's Salad Fattier Than Burgers
Global hamburger giant McDonald's latest line in healthy looking salads may contain more fat than its hamburgers, according to the company's website.

March 15th 2004
Investigation into 'sickening' bloody burger
A SCHOOL cook said she and her family were horrified to find that burgers they ordered at a fast-food restaurant were 'dripping with blood'.

March 15th 2004
McDonald's Menu to Go on Diet in 2005
Say goodbye to those super-sized fries _ McDonald's is slimming down its menu.

March 15th 2004
McDonald's Israel Reportedly Fires Employee for Speaking Arabic
Abeer Zinaty, an Israeli citizen of Palestinian origin was fired from her job at a McDonald's restaurant in Ramle, central Israel, specifically because she spoke Arabic to a co-worker

March 15th 2004
Pressure grows for curbs on junk food ads
Pressure is mounting on the government to introduce greater restrictions on advertising junk food to children, after research showed more than eight out of 10 people believe existing controls are not enough.

March 15th 2004
Snake at McDonald's may have legal bite
Joanne Borgerding was sitting in a packed Eagan McDonald's at lunchtime, eating a chicken sandwich and reading a book when something moved beneath her booth.

March 15th 2004
Book Review
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

January 30th 2004
People's Forum Against Coca-Cola
"We have to build an international alliance to battle the multinationals"

January 26th 2004
Shock news: McDonald's make you unhealthy
A diet of Maccy D's = Increased weight, vomiting, toxic liver, high cholesterol, low libido, headaches and depression. Can you make that to go ?

January 6th 2004
Japan - Mcdonalds rejects US Beef
Japan, America's largest beef export market by value, was among the first of dozens of countries to ban US beef following the first US case of mad cow disease

January 6th 2004
Mcdonalds shares fall 5% after 1st US case of BSE
US confirms first 'mad cow' case

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