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And Vegetable Oil, and pseudo estrogens in plastics, and Bliss point foods, and...
> Vegetable Oil Absolutely common item on every kitchen > pseudo estrogens in plastics This is 2022, we have to pack our food with some plastic. > Bliss point foods It litery means that your food needs to be yummy.
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And Vegetable Oil, and pseudo estrogens in plastics, and Bliss point foods, and...
> Vegetable Oil Absolutely common item on every kitchen > pseudo estrogens in plastics This is 2022, we have to pack our food with some plastic. > Bliss point foods It litery means that your food needs to be yummy.
We don't; cardboard packaging for food is pretty common nowadays.
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I think the suggestion is that they are going to remove the branding rights from the franchise owners “de-Arching” them. So there will be no McDonalds branded restaurants in Russia.
Could they actually do that if the “lease” contract expires? (if that is the correct term for a franchise).
Not a McD franchisee, but I've been involved in franchise businesses before.
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I don't think this is the reasoning at all. I think trying to conduct transactions in a heavily sanctioned nation that's also fighting a war of aggression against a neighbor, and incurring heavy losses, is causing a headache for the bean counters, and it has finally become more trouble than it's worth, financially. These enormous multinational behemoths - as an entity - don't give two shits about the people dying in…
All international conglomerates are amoral. Some are more amoral than others.
They never had an issue operating in Saudi Arabia despite the invasion of Yemen. They still maintain their Guantanamo Bay location. How is operating in Russia inconsistent with their values?
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And Vegetable Oil, and pseudo estrogens in plastics, and Bliss point foods, and...
> Vegetable Oil Absolutely common item on every kitchen > pseudo estrogens in plastics This is 2022, we have to pack our food with some plastic. > Bliss point foods It litery means that your food needs to be yummy.
Not my kitchen. We buy meat from a farm and render the fat trimmings to cook with.
That wasn't your point though.
Still, to actually refute your point I'd say that doesn't make it healthy, and my original point was about the many ways McDonald's food is unhealthy.
> This is 2022, we have to pack our food with some plastic.
No, we don't. Wax paper works fine.
The farm meat I get comes wrapped in butcher paper without the plastic per my request.
But my complaints are actually more about the types of plastics that are being shown more and more to leach pseudo estrogens into heated fats. No all plastics did this, but fast food containers do.
> It litery means that your food needs to be yummy.
I Cook yummy food, buy it's not literally designed to keep you eating more and feeling hungry shortly thereafter.
They never had an issue operating in Saudi Arabia despite the invasion of Yemen. They still maintain their Guantanamo Bay location. How is operating in Russia inconsistent with their values?
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Can you sell the Russian business without violating the sanctions?
IANAL but Russia is legal to do business with with exception of certain corporate entities and individuals. There's a deny-list, not an allow-list. Unfortunately, since the latest war the deny-list has grown substantially (making it a bit difficult to ensure you aren't accidentally servicing someone involved with a sanctioned entity), combined with political pressure this prompted some businesses to go an extra mile…
But I don’t think it’s terrorism. Terrorism usually has a few criteria: not a regular army, and typically don’t use heavy military equipment but rely on guerrilla tactics and aim to terrorize because they are incapable of taking over a territory —because of a lack in numbers for control.
They would also qualify if they “export” terror by training, providing comfort and logistics to terrors groups. Maybe the latter applies more than the former. Though a few other countries could easily be labeled as such too.