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

[JustineMumsnet]

Good day MNetters,
We've been asked if we'd host ads for McDonalds, so we thought we'd ask what you think. Would you object to banner ads (ie like the one at the top of the page) on Mumsnet?
Let us know.

don't have a problem, it's not a site for children so grown ups can choose if they want to click on it/be subliminially persuaded to eat some lard

OOoh Justine - you are brave!

I shall watch this with much interest ...

Doesn't bother me. Can we have a free burger if we click on the ad? :o

i can't help but feel we aren't their core emgraphic...

it coul backfire spectacularly.

oooh selling your souls! More cash in your coffers though .

Wouldn't bother me. I couldn't say what the current ads on here are for without looking, so I'm not likely to notice anyway.

I don't have a problem with it

I dont think it matters really. McDonalds isnt evil and people have free choice. If it brings in more revenue for mumsnet then go for it!

I don't mind as long as it's not that creepy one where he (RM) walks round the corner of the bunk beds.....

agree with all the above
get the cash in from Maccy D's for mumsnet
We are all adults and can make our own minds up

It wouldn't bother me, as adults I'm sure we can decide for ourselves whT we eat.
Can you do a deal with Burger King or KFC though as I prefer them to Mcdonalds

i'd rather not. A couple of years of carrot sticks does not undo decades of crap, unhealthy food and aggressive, pervasive advertising towards children, In my opinion. Not to mention Evil Clowns....

I don't mind if they give me a free suasage and egg McMuffin.

Keep it small though.

I don't mind really but then again I don't pay much attention to the ads - I just zone them out...

Anything but that stupid persil one that plays music if your mouse strays.

No problem with it at all.

Do it! IMHO, they have not done anything unethical (assuming the majority are not veggie. Although I am as it happens!). On the contrary, the UK branch is quite good on welfare vs. its competitors. So beyond that, MN-ers can make up their own minds.

I'd rather not. Burgers and chips does not = Jamies DInners which we are all supposed to be feeding our children.
A bag of dried up carrots just doesn't cut it.

(disclaimer - my children do eat McDs on occasion)

Where would you draw the line? Pizza hut? KFC? BUrger King? Cheese strings? mars bars? .....

I don't see why not. Like Boden, GLTC, we're adults and we can choose where we shop etc.

Not a problem with it here.

Take the adverts and divert the fees earned to a nominated charity ?

'tis the thin (or rather fat saturated end) of the wedge.

IMO

I tend not to notice any ads So I'm fine with it

We are all adults so can choose to click/ignore or whatever

But if MN has taken a moral stance against Nestle, and all the girls can be girls things, why aren't you taking a moral stance against the company which has contributed, for much of its existence, to climate change and damage to indigenous populations by ravaging the rainforests?

Go for it, by all means, line MN's pockets, but I hope you sleep at night, honey!