Food & Produce
McSpotlight
Large site spotlighting McDonald's exploitation of animals,
people and the environment. Including information, news, public
discussion rooms.
Hello and welcome to McSpotlight. The biggest,
loudest, most red, most read Anti-McDonald's extravaganza
the world has ever seen. Anything you could possibly want
to know about McDonald's or McLibel nestles somewhere in our
21,000 files. Don't get us wrong, though, we're not telling
you to give up your Big Macs. We just provide the info for
you to judge for yourself.
Here's just one small story
form the site....The Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee
(CIC) has visited a total of 10 factories, all of which are
toy contractors for McDonald's in main land China, from August
to October 2000. Earlier on (27 Aug 2000), we published an
in-depth report on the conditions in City Toys, another toy
contractor for McDonald's in Shenzhen. The City Toys reports
reveals gross violations of labor rights, the use of under
aged labor, and the total failure of McDonald' factory monitoring
in addressing and correcting these violations....The aim of
our conducting these factories visits of McDonald's toy contractors
is to let the local as well as the international communities
know what lies behind the fun and "Smiles" of McDonald's
toys.
FULL REPORT HERE
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Coconut Oil
Lots of info on the amazing health benefits of coconut oil,
which has been used by island communities for centuries.
Coconut oil has been slandered by the vegetable oil
companies as being high in cholesterol (not true). This
happened because most of the world vegetable oil crops
(soy, corn etc) are grown in the US by big agribusiness
multinationals which have deliberately pushed coconut
oil out of the market. Coconut Oil is one of the few oils
that is stable when heated to a high temp, and therefore
does not go rancid with heat and cause free radicals in
your body like vegetable oils and margarines. Coconut
Oil has very powerful anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and
anti-viral properties. It also contains lauric acid
(which is only found elsewhere in breast milk) which
means it's a HUGE immune booster. Available in health
food shops. Slowly gaining visibility.
NUI
Site of the NUI South Pacific company that exports Extra
Virgin Organic Coconut Oil on from the South Pacific on
the FAIRTRADE label.
A great business for island communities who get a
decent return for their product!
National Organic Directory for Australia
A non-profit voluntary environmental organisation for eco-friendly people to unite to save their communities. |
