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Anchoress
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posted 17 January 2005 07:09 PM      Profile for Anchoress     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Biting my tongue...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. - Charlie Bell, the former chief executive of fast-food chain McDonald's, died of colorectal cancer at age 44 early Monday in Sydney, Australia.

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He had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer in May of 2004, less than a month after succeeding Jim Cantalupo to the top job at the burger chain.

Cantalupo died suddenly from a heart attack in April 2004.



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Anchoress
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posted 18 January 2005 06:52 PM      Profile for Anchoress     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
BuMMMMMMMp
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robbie_dee
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posted 18 January 2005 06:56 PM      Profile for robbie_dee     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Are you trying to draw a connection with the food? Just because they work for McDonalds doesn't mean they actually eat that crap, does it? OTOH I do understand both Baskin and Robbins died of obesity related medical conditions they probably incurred as a result of overconsuming their product.
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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 18 January 2005 08:37 PM      Profile for Américain Égalitaire   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Bell worked his way up from a crewmember in an Australian McDonalds. As that was my first job, I have a theory. Inhaling vat grease from working at McDonalds over a period of time, I would believe, will cause medical problems. When I used to get home from working there, my mom could smell me before she could see me!

Still, it doesn't look quite right that McDonalds can't keep their CEO's alive. Maybe they should offer Newt Gingrich the job.

I'm bad, I know


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worker_drone
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posted 18 January 2005 08:59 PM      Profile for worker_drone        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Bell worked his way up from a crewmember in an Australian McDonalds.

Wrong! Obviously, since he was CEO, he had his rich daddy pull in some favours from his buddies down at the golf and country club.

That's the way these things work don't you know?


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Walker
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posted 18 January 2005 09:17 PM      Profile for Walker     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by worker_drone:

Wrong! Obviously, since he was CEO, he had his rich daddy pull in some favours from his buddies down at the golf and country club.

That's the way these things work don't you know?


Um, not that I'm a spokesperson for Macca's, but Charlie Bell DID work his way up from crew member. Hard to believe but people are known to gain seniority via actual hard work.


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April
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posted 19 January 2005 12:52 AM      Profile for April     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Colorectal cancer? Didn't Morgan Spurlock almost get that in SuperSize Me?

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Responsible for marketing, Bell oversaw the introduction of the "I'm loving it" campaign, the company's first with a single global slogan.

I guess love kills sometimes...

[ 19 January 2005: Message edited by: April ]


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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 19 January 2005 10:08 AM      Profile for Américain Égalitaire   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 

Yes April, love hurts

(Morgan Spurlock's EKG)

[ 19 January 2005: Message edited by: Egalitarian American ]


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kuri
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posted 15 February 2005 09:27 AM      Profile for kuri   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I thought this might be a good place to post this update of the McLibel case here in the UK. The duo who were sued by Rotten Ronnie's challenged that their rights were violated by the UK burden or proof (on the defendant in libel if I remember right) and by the fact that they were denied legal aid.

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In the Human Rights court case, Ms Steel and Mr Morris, both from Tottenham, north London, argued that the government breached their human rights by failing to make legal aid available and because the libel laws obliged them to justify every word of anti-McDonald's allegations contained in the leaflets they distributed.

Their legal team said multinational companies should not be allowed to sue for libel because they wield huge power over people's lives and the environment and therefore should be open to scrutiny and criticism.

But government lawyers argued that campaigners for social justice are subject to the same laws of libel as anyone else, even when wealthy multinational corporations are their targets.

Reacting to Tuesday's decision, a spokesman for the Department of Constitutional Affairs said: "We are studying the judgement very carefully."


Yey Strasbourg!


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