Help Children Worldwide - Eat McDonald's November 20, 2002

[wjsulliv]

Basically if you buy any of the following sandwiches in any way (by themselves or part of a meal) McDonald's will make a $1.00 donation to Ronald McDonald House Charities to benefit Children Worldwide 11/20/2002.

Sandwiches:
Big Mac
Egg McMuffin
Happy Meal
Mighty Kids Meal

Link for more details.


Please don't crap this thread based on your personal politics for or against McDonald's. This is legitimately for a good cause and is intended to inform those of you might be intending to eat out 11/20 anyway.

 

[FuManStan]

Cool, i think i'll grab breakfast there tomorrow to help out

 

[Kerouactivist]

if they really wanted to help out they should donate all the profits they make in one day.

Now that would be awesome.

 

[beerbong]

off topic, but donating free food to other countries sometimes just increases illegal activities. Free food makes it so people do not buy stuff, thus putting farmers out of buisness..so only thing farmers can produce is illegal stuff to export to usa..according to Noam Chomsky. damn us govt.

 

[MagicSalsa]

I like McDonalds but i'm at college and no car and stuck in a big bubble. i haven't eaten mcdoandsl for 3 months! boo

 

[RyceBoy]

I'll stop by for a happy meal !

 

[FuzzyBee]

I like it that it doesn't look like they cap the amount they give. Maybe I'll scratch together a couple of bucks to go.

 

[Gnurb]

Thanks for the heads up, wjsulliv. I'll probably stop there for breakfast tommorow. (then stop by the library and pick up fast food nation sorry, couldn't help it)

 

[TekDemon]

Originally posted by: fuzzy bee
I like it that it doesn't look like they cap the amount they give. Maybe I'll scratch together a couple of bucks to go.

lol, why would they cap it? =P they'd just make more money...no actual cost to them at all. And I'm sure you'd be thirsty or want fries with the sandwich...so it's great for their business if more people went.

Too bad I have no car...plus I didn't buy that discount card one of the frats here made(it's a hot deal...2 bigmacs for the price of 1 anytime until august 2003 if you buy the discount card =P...also plenty of other discounts-like b1g1free starbucks crap...and 50% off 2nd entree at distillery...very impressed the frat got such huge discounts from all the retailers! Probably the crappy economy too =P)

 

[ReiAyanami]

but arent mcdonald's hamburgers made in 3rd world countries by chilren for pennies? oh wait that's nike.

 

[ChrisOjeda]

Don't feed your kids that poison or you won't be helping people worldwide.... McDonald's is one of the worst fast foods for health of adults and children.... Also, you should do the research and verify the performance of the Ronald McDonald charity fund. Every year there are many locations where you can obtain this. Most charities spend well over 80% for administration (high salaries, nice perks, luxury travel, etc). I don't recall this fund every stickout out as one of the very leanest when it comes to wasting donations. If your goal is to truly help anyone, you should always start there. Otherwise, you may be fattening the pockets of people who would take a lot of that food from starving kids. Do the research and update the thread. If they are good then more people may jump on board.

 

[dentalboy]

getting in the giving spirit, does this mean the 99 cent big n tasty also count , that mean mcd's is losing money then

 

[Loricariidae]

Help feed McDonald's "non-profit" and perhaps a few children after administrative costs, and also help burn down some rainforests while you're at it, too! McDonald's certainly isn't shy about slashing and burning tropical rainforests in third-world nations in order to graze cattle for its beef (wonder why all those burgers are so cheap?). Save your money and donate to a real charity instead of a corporation if you're truly concerned about world hunger.

 

[The Sauce]

Is there some charity I can contribute to where my money will provide condoms for impoverished countries? Overpopulation is the problem here. One round of extra fries and slaughtered cows isn't going to fix anything.

 

[wjsulliv]

Good to see there is a good amount of slanderous miss information being added to this thread... Maybe some of you should try and get educated by someone other than the National Enquirer and Jerry Springer.

If you went by the US Goverment suggestion for daily allowances of fat, carbohydrates, sodium, etc for a 5 year old you would find that a Happy Meal provides less that 1/3 the amount allowed. I.e. if you follow the guidlines you can serve a 5 year old 3 happy meals a day as thier food intake and still have room for desert.

As for the rain forest beef, that is probubly true. However, if you look I think you'll find that McDonald's didn't cut down the trees for the cattle, more like they bought the land where the trees were, after they were cut down (or scheduled to be cut down) by somebody else.



As for the Charity... If you click the link above you can find out more but here is a cut and paste:

Funds raised on McDonald's World Children's Day will be used to help children throughout the world in a multitude of ways. Plans include:

Aid for an estimated 21 orphanages in countries such as Russia, Estonia and Kuwait.

Assistance for close to 70 children's hospitals in Egypt, Croatia, El Salvador, Singapore, the U.S. and others.

Distribution of nearly 120,000 dictionaries to children in rural areas of China.

Support for 16 new Ronald McDonald Houses in: France (6), Norway (1), Romania (1), Austria (1), Ireland (1), Portugal (1), Honduras (1), Netherlands (3), Puerto Rico (1).

Supply of about 50,000 meals for needy children in Israel.

The first Ronald McDonald House Charities Daycare Center in the Philippines.

Assistance for approximately 200 children's health organizations around the world, including cancer and leukemia, mental disabilities, physical handicaps and child abuse.

Contributions to support the efforts of local Ronald McDonald House Charities Chapters across the United States and in 44 countries worldwide, including ongoing operations of the Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald Family Room, Ronald McDonald Care Mobile and scholarship programs

For those of you whom don't know the Ronald McDoanld House is a living space attached to hospitals where the families of critically ill children (I.e. cancer patients, etc) can come and stay near their sick child for free.


The whole point of this thread was that if your going to eat out today and have a choice that might include McDonald's, that today would be the day to go to McDonald's. Today they are making an effort to charitably help children in need. You don't need to make a political statement that the rest of the companies practices are what your against. You need to decide if you want to help children worldwide.

Ask yourself do Wendy's, BK, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, or White Castle do anything like this to help people?

 

[MaximusH825]

Man, if only the Triple Cheeseburger was one of the sandwiches... I'd be donating a whole wing to some hospital for sure...

 

[flythunderbird]

Donating to charity is OK, but McDonald's food = yuck!!

 

[cdub]

According to <i>Fast Food Nation</i>, which is highly recommended reading for all here, McDonald's uses all-US beef in the US. I dont know about places like China, though I seem to recall something in the book talking about McD's using local produce and poultry, but I dont remember anything about the beef. From what I understood from that book, the rain forest thing is a myth.

 

[tsee]

Beerbong, what you said will never happen. The only way farmers get hurt is when there is surplus so people choose donated food over what they can buy. In that kind of land of plenty, McDonalds won't need to donate anything. We're talking about impoverished or at least poor places here. People don't have enough to eat. There will never enough free food to ruin farmers. So open your wallet.

 

[Miramonti]

Help Children Worldwide

It would be a greater service to children worldwide if McDonalds didn't sell the crap they do.

 

[render]

If you went by the US Goverment suggestion for daily allowances of fat, carbohydrates, sodium, etc for a 5 year old you would find that a Happy Meal provides less that 1/3 the amount allowed. I.e. if you follow the guidlines you can serve a 5 year old 3 happy meals a day as thier food intake and still have room for desert.

Feed a kid with a hamburger everyday, and see what happens.

 

[ChrisOjeda]

Originally posted by: wjsulliv
Good to see there is a good amount of slanderous miss information being added to this thread... Maybe some of you should try and get educated by someone other than the National Enquirer and Jerry Springer. If you went by the US Goverment suggestion for daily allowances of fat, carbohydrates, sodium, etc for a 5 year old you would find that a Happy Meal provides less that 1/3 the amount allowed. I.e. if you follow the guidlines you can serve a 5 year old 3 happy meals a day as thier food intake and still have room for desert. As for the rain forest beef, that is probubly true. However, if you look I think you'll find that McDonald's didn't cut down the trees for the cattle, more like they bought the land where the trees were, after they were cut down (or scheduled to be cut down) by somebody else. As for the Charity... If you click the link above you can find out more but here is a cut and paste:

Funds raised on McDonald's World Children's Day will be used to help children throughout the world in a multitude of ways. Plans include: Aid for an estimated 21 orphanages in countries such as Russia, Estonia and Kuwait. Assistance for close to 70 children's hospitals in Egypt, Croatia, El Salvador, Singapore, the U.S. and others. Distribution of nearly 120,000 dictionaries to children in rural areas of China. Support for 16 new Ronald McDonald Houses in: France (6), Norway (1), Romania (1), Austria (1), Ireland (1), Portugal (1), Honduras (1), Netherlands (3), Puerto Rico (1). Supply of about 50,000 meals for needy children in Israel. The first Ronald McDonald House Charities Daycare Center in the Philippines. Assistance for approximately 200 children's health organizations around the world, including cancer and leukemia, mental disabilities, physical handicaps and child abuse. Contributions to support the efforts of local Ronald McDonald House Charities Chapters across the United States and in 44 countries worldwide, including ongoing operations of the Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald Family Room, Ronald McDonald Care Mobile and scholarship programs

For those of you whom don't know the Ronald McDoanld House is a living space attached to hospitals where the families of critically ill children (I.e. cancer patients, etc) can come and stay near their sick child for free. The whole point of this thread was that if your going to eat out today and have a choice that might include McDonald's, that today would be the day to go to McDonald's. Today they are making an effort to charitably help children in need. You don't need to make a political statement that the rest of the companies practices are what your against. You need to decide if you want to help children worldwide. Ask yourself do Wendy's, BK, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, or White Castle do anything like this to help people?

Here is the bottom line! If I give $20 dollars to them how much actually helps kids. Your argument is to give it if I want to help. But what if only $5 of the $20 makes it. And had I taken that $20 to another charity then $15 made it to help out and only $5 was lost to administration. I don't really care what you say they are doing, because there are plenty of charities that help kids. I participate in the Junior Bowlathon, Toys for Tots, and the March of Dimes. I just want to know if my money is better donated somewhere else where more of it makes it to the end result of helping. Your big response did not address that concern but rather dodged the concern by bombarding me with useless information and then tried a poor attemtp of logic by an appeal to pity. People that give, will give. If they are smart, they will make sure that what they give is not wasted by people who are supposed to be the trusted caretakes of the funds. In the old days charities were ran by volunteers primarily or people who got paid almsot nothing ( a few still exist). Today, many chariites rape the funds they get to pay employees and management ridiculous fees. Remember the Red Cross and 9/11 when they exposed how much those people made and spent wastesfully. You get the picture.....

 

[FuManStan]

Geez, a lot of thread crapping. Point is, if u happen to be heading out for fast food stop by mcdonalds and there will be a small donation. If u think mcdonalds tastes bad, or their meat is weird, or its too fattening, or their charity sucks, then fine, just don't go

 

[wjsulliv]

ChrisOjeda, I don't know the percentage. I know my office has had department outings to the local Ronald McDonald House to work as volunteers.

I also know that many of the leaders of RMHC are McDonald's Owner/Operators whom have volunteered to do it. Can I guarentee that 100% goes to people in need (like toys for tots where there is no cash to worry about how it is spent), no.

From personal experience, I trust that my money donated to RMHC is well spent and not waisted.


My point wasn't that you should run out and buy a Big Mac because of the charity donation or that it was a good charity. My point was that if you're already going to eat fast food, today would be a good day to go to McDonald's.

Regardless of the percetage of your $1 dollar donation that will actually benefit a child, its more than was/is going to be donated by any other fast food company. And to donate you don't have to drastically change your plans, nor donate money that you originally had not planned on donating.

You eat food, money goes to charity, this was not supposed to be a debate about which charity is most worthy of a cold hard cash donation.

 

[Soujiro]

Hmmmm, these guys all make a good point© Seems like your money would be better used by the Red Cross or Salvation Army or something©

It's great that McDonalds has houses attached to hospitals where sick kids parents can stay, but the amount of heart disease, hypertension, obesity, and other medical problems that McDonands food is apt to cause probably puts more people in the hospital than that money is going to help©

If McDonalds was truly being generous, they'd just donate some of their profits to charity©©©not make more people come in and buy their food and skim off the top of what they make that day for charity© It costs them like 9 cents to make a soda and they charge you like a dollar something, so why don't they give the profits they make off sodas for a day to charity©©©now that would be a hot deal© ¥Fast Food Nation = good book¤

The simple truth is they're doing this because it's good business© They still turn a profit on every purchase, sell more food, and look good for donating a small amount off the top© To call them a truly charitable organization for this is laughable© This is just good business©

Soujir0