McDonalds Ads - tell us how do you feel about them folks?

Sorry, I don't think it's a particularly good idea! Not quite this site demographic surely?

Wouldn't be very impressed.

But wouldn't get my knickers in a twist either.

I say no! They may prompote the healthy option on the telly and in ads but we all know what they are really about...selling naff food to kids via pester power. Adding carrot sticks and fruit to the menu is not going to change the real aim...sell crap food to the masses and aid them on the road to obesity!

I would have a major problem with it.

Rather have McDonalds than Boden. Also not a fan of the wanky smug holiday companies advertising. PS whatever happened to the "is it ok for L'Oreal to advertise here" question from a few months ago. It was in relation to Nestle being a stakeholder in L'Oreal. Can't remember if it was resolved.

really?

have they been on mumsnet?

i would probably go elsewhere tbh. i know that no companies are very ethical but macds are kind of like coca cola or walmart - kind of iconic capitalism taken to the nth degree nasty.

No problem with it here!!! I enjoy a cheeky mcdonalds now and then! And more pennies for MN!

Not this again

NO

their chocolate milkshakes are strangely moreish though....

they do employ a shit load of youngsters and times are hard

oh yes, good point, one condition - no clowns

they give me the willies

Fine by me, it's not crack cocaine

Do ASDA advertise here? Wal-Mart is pretty dreadful, iirc.

I remember it too, glasto. My 15 (or indeed 25) yo self wouldn't be terribly impressed with my McDonalds patronage.

Besides, as Hecate says, an advert is a plea, not a command. Within reason I couldn't give a stuff what MN advertises.

Actually, I agree that in respect of McLibel McD is worse than other advertisers on here. But in all other respects, it is just one more of the same.

Go ahead. It won't encourage me to start going there.
I haven't a clue who else advertises on here either

Way I see it is this. When I lived in London as a freeholder within a block with a community run management we decided that we would allow a billboard on the side of our building. Once we'd agreed that, it didn't matter what was being advertised, nor did we get any say. By selling a bit of our space we had given up the right to dictate.

I am puzzled what mnhq are seeking by canvassing opinion like this, will it actually matter what we think?

I just looked up McLibel, the case was closed in 2005 after a 20 year legal battle.

And I'm not saying that anyone can say they haven't done anything unethical, but I didn't like the way the conducted themselves at all over that case.

How can anyone say that they haven't done anything unethical?

It hasn't been that long since McLibel has it?

Sorry, I am old enough to still hate them for the McLibel case, so I'd be a bit disappointed in Mumsnet really. I haven't boycotted Sausage and Egg crackmuffins for ten years for nothing you know!

I think it would bother me. My kids have eaten MacDonalds - I'm not a complete snob about them (only a partial one) - but I don't like them.

I don't like their litigious nature, I don't like their food and I don't like their contribution to the destruction of rainforests. You don't think Macdonalds and then think "ethical", do you?

I think if I was a newbie who discovered MN and the first thing I saw was a MacDonalds ad, I'd move on pronto. It doesn't portray MN in the best of lights.

nah - don't if you don't have to

Doesn't bother me.

But is McD really any worse than Tesco which has advertised here? Certainly Tesco is rapacious. It undermines small retailers and town centres, it flogs cheap throwaway clothing in an environmentally unsustainable way; it underpays farmers, etc. Mumsnet is part of the advertising industry. It is a billboard. It is the talk community it hosts that is different from that. So best to put all the emphasis on keeping advertisers out of the talkspace e.g by clearly signalling which webchats are paid for and by general vigilance about what kind of admittance is given in connection with, e.g., their buy-in to the Let Girls be Girls stuff..

Im ok with it, although my tummy isnt!