<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I have had some great conversations with persons on this list about the connections between food and peace/justice/sustainability.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are just a few of the ideas that have surfaced:</div><div><br></div><div><i>What we do to animals we eventually do to one another.</i></div><div><i>How we treat our bodies is a reflection of how we treat the ecosystem.</i></div><div><i>Crop monoculture and industrial monoculture carry similar social costs and existential threats. </i></div><div><br></div><div>and so on.</div><div><br></div><div>The link described between Fox News and McDonalds highlights this parallel process.</div><div><br></div><div>Hal</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">Is Rupert Murdoch "Lovin' It?"</span></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#555555" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #555555"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/346">Submitted by meg</a></span> on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 3:01pm.</font><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"> <a href="http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000eff" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #000eff"><b>Analysis</b></font></a></font></div><div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS<br> by Meg White</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; ">Rumors began circulating around several news Web sites and blogs yesterday that <b>McDonald's has a policy to exclusively play FOX News on its in-restaurant televisions</b>. Apparently, someone who called in to a program on C-SPAN said he had gone to a McDonald's in Missouri and asked them to change the channel from FOX to something else. Workers there refused, saying they weren't allowed to change the channel due to corporate policy. The caller said he then spoke with a regional director. An <a href="http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2008/08/mcdonalds-force-feeding-fox-news-in.html"><font color="#000eff" style="color: #000eff"><b>e-mail</b></font></a> written by a C-SPAN watcher who goes by "Libby" said that the caller said that the regional director told him the policy was due to "bad things on other channels." </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">A </span><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/4/205556/7448"><font color="#000eff" style="color: #000eff"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">post</span></b></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> on Daily Kos said this about the encounter:</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">"McDonald's was in the process of <b>installing wide screen TVs in all of their restaurants over the entire five-state region, and that the 'FOX News only policy' was corporate policy for all McDonald's restaurants</b> in the region. The director also stated that the reason for this policy was that McDonald's had determined that there is less violence on FOX News than any other channel."<br></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">[remainder of article at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/346">http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/346</a> ]</span></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; ">P.S.: see also<div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><b>Is junk media making you sick???</b></font></div></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilNLeXefmNw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilNLeXefmNw</a> ]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></p></div></div></div></body></html>