I signed! I can't believe the nerve of these weirdos. I think that they should mind their own farking business and stop trying to empose their views and beliefs on everyone else. This is what happens to people with too much time on their hands.
MCDONALD'S PROMOTES DEADLY MACHINERY AS TOYS IN "MONOPOLY" GAME
Groups Ask Company to Substitute Safe, Non-Polluting Alternatives for Sweepstakes Prizes
CONTACT:
Katy Rexford, Bluewater Network (415) 788-3666, ext. 157
David Orr, Living Rivers (435) 259-1063
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, August 3, 2001 -- San Francisco, CA
Environmental leaders, consumer advocates, and concerned parents blasted McDonald's Food Corporation for offering as sweepstakes prizes three of the deadliest and most environmentally harmful recreation vehicles on the market today - snowmobiles, personal watercraft (PWC, or "jetskis"), and all-terrain vehicles (ATV). In a joint letter sent today to McDonald's CEO Jack Greenberg in Oak Brook, Illinois, 26 organizations called on the fast-food magnate to substitute safer and less environmentally destructive products for the company's nationwide "Monopoly" sweepstakes game.
"The McDonald's Corporation promotes itself as caring about 'safe fun for children' and protecting the environment, but the Monopoly game prizes contradict those corporate values," said Katy Rexford of Bluewater Network. "We're shocked that McDonald's would offer to children prizes that are responsible for so many injuries and deaths."
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, ATVs alone sent more than 95,000 Americans to the emergency room in 2000; snowmobiles were responsible for more than 14,000 emergency room visits. Moreover, while PWC comprise only 10 percent of the United StatesÕ recreational boating population, they are responsible for more than 40 percent of injury accidents.
The National Park Service (NPS) recently agreed to ban PWCs from most national parks, and a subsequent federal court settlement agreement with the NPS calls for a possible ban on PWCs at all other park units, including Lake Mead and Lake Powell on the Colorado River.
"Jetskis are unsafe and contribute to the pollution of water supplies for more than 20 million people in the Colorado River alone," said David Orr of Living Rivers in Moab, Utah, a co-plaintiff with Bluewater Network on the NPS lawsuit. "While citizens struggle to protect their families and their drinking water from these destructive machines, McDonald's is busy serving them up as good, clean fun."
Not only do these motorized "thrillcraft" have abysmal safety records, they are bad for the environment. Almost exclusively powered by dirty two-stroke engines, these machines dump between 25 and 30 percent of their unburned fuel mixture directly into the water, or onto the land or snow over which they ride.
Joining Bluewater Network and Living Rivers in the letter to McDonald's were groups from Alaska to Virginia, including the Alaska Center for the Environment, American Canoe Association, Bay Area Wilderness Training, Boreal Footprint Project, California Wilderness Coalition, Campaign to Safeguard America's Waters, Center for Biological Diversity, Colorado Mountain Club, Friends of the River, International Marine Mammal Project, Minnesotans for Responsible Recreation, Montana Wilderness Association, National Parks Conservation Association, Planning and Conservation League, Public Citizen, Schubert & Associates, Sea Turtle Restoration Project, Superior Wilderness Action Network, Swan View Coalition, Wild Wilderness, Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads, Winter Wildlands Alliance, and the Yggdrasil Institute.
In their letter, the groups expressed their desire to work with Mr. Greenberg to "change the emphasis of the 'Monopoly' game from one of dangerous, disruptive, and disproportionately polluting motorized recreation to a wholly different set of values that respects the environment and promotes the 'safe fun for children' theme that McDonald's proudly proclaims."
It always astounds me that these groups are so large, spread across the lands like soured butter on once good bread. Are there really that many people down on motorized recreation? Probably have never had the chance to try it themselves....too busy tramping through the wilderness, expending every possible effort to save some endangered noxious weed from extinction. I'm sure that none of them have any undue interest in power and control. Just helping Mother Earth....
Originally posted by scouringpad Probably have never had the chance to try it themselves....too busy tramping through the wilderness, expending every possible effort to save some endangered noxious weed from extinction.
I signed. I don't usually visit McDonalds, but I think I'll make an exception if I can win one of the cool "toys"!
Hmm. Seems to me that in games past, McDonalds has given away SUVs and cars as prizes. Those polluters are okay, I suppose. :think
And the Big screen TVs, people sit in front of them and get stupid-- that's okay? How about the stereo systems, so that we can listen to our music way too loud and go deaf?
Signed it .. # 1659 ... Funny this morning Ii heard the distributor of the game pieces (Not McDonalds) rigged this where only their friends won the prizes ... These eviro-nuts need to get a life.
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1667. John Arsenault I feel that Bombardier is a very nice prize to have offered by McDonalds and Because of it I will Make sure my Lunch today is a BIG Mac and a Large fry, and oh yea the all mighty Apple Pie.....Thank you McDonalds
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