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Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

Last post Wed, Oct 17 2007 11:23 by anonymous. 10 replies.
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  • Mon, Oct 15 2007 10:18

    Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    McDonald's is a major customer of British agriculture - both livestock and arable - but do you think it takes its responsibility seriously?

    From Monday (15 October) it will pay 5% more for teh beef and pork it uses in its patties. 

    Currently all McDonald's beef comes from the UK and Ireland, and all its pork is British.

    McDonald's uses whole cuts of beef forequarter and flank in its 100% beef patties. These cuts typically represent around 45% of the total weight of an animal’s carcass.

    In 2006 McDonald's boneless belly pork and bacon was sourced from 1.2million pigs, all from British farms.
    In 2006 approximately 6,330 farms in England, Wales and Scotland supplied beef and pork to McDonald’s.

    On Friday (19 Oct) FW will be interviewing two senior guys at McDonald's.  What would you ask them?

  • Mon, Oct 15 2007 17:19 In reply to

    Re: Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    Not sure I'd have any specific questions. I do feel, however, that McDonald's get a worse reputation than they deserve. They provide a consistent product at a fixed price and it is hardly their fault if the ignorant populace over indulge in it. The fact that they are prepared to patronize British agriculture suggests a commitment sadly missing from the major supermarkets.

    "Everything's shiny cap'n"
  • Mon, Oct 15 2007 19:47 In reply to

    • sjk
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    Re: Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    If they source all their beef and pork from the UK and Ireland my tongue in cheek question would so when are they going to bring out a lamb line of products Wink

    Sam

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  • Mon, Oct 15 2007 20:22 In reply to

    • heatherp
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    Re: Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    As they are so popular we need them to really push the point that their meat all comes from Britain, do they have it on any packaging, can't say I've ever noticed. 

  • Mon, Oct 15 2007 21:14 In reply to

    Re: Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    I totally agree , MacDonalds have a chance to market lamb . If they did it would be very well received from sheep farmers in this country who have been cut off from their export market and are going through a very tough time just now .

  • Tue, Oct 16 2007 7:59 In reply to

    Re: Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    Certainly their tray fliers feature named suppliers for their beef, potatoes and lettuce.

    Might be worth FW tracking them down and getting their views?

    "Everything's shiny cap'n"
  • Tue, Oct 16 2007 8:19 In reply to

    • Malcolm
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    Re: Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    Such support for the British agricultural industry from such a well-known, multinational company is very welcomed. Do they have any concerns for the future of agriculture in the UK?

  • Wed, Oct 17 2007 9:18 In reply to

    • Dick
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    Re: Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    Talking to McDonalds, and your question about what we Farmers would like to say to the McDonlands people.

    How about,

    'Thankyou sirs, the British Farming fraternity are most grateful that your organisation is buying British Beef and British pork,

    No moaning,no carping on about how bad Farming is, just a big THANKYOU !

    ps. If the McDonalds people you are meeting have any influence with their other excellent food business, i.e. 'Pret a Manger', please ask them to supply ordinary milk in addition to organic milk for more discerning customers, like me, who will not drink organic milk. When I asked at their Leeds branch for normal milk in my coffee the staff were shocked and a food fascist stood behind me attacked me verbally me for asking for such a thing as though I was mentally insane. I, of course, soon put her and her silly friends right about the real issues surrounding organic production and why I would not consider consuming such produce. They and the rest of the mainly middleclass ladies were quite shocked as I think as no one had ever explained the  case for consuming normally produced ,first class British produce.

    Dick

  • Wed, Oct 17 2007 10:14 In reply to

    • dave1
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    Re: Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    They advertise that it's 100% beef in the burgers, then why do they taste so bad these days ?

  • Wed, Oct 17 2007 10:52 In reply to

    Re: Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    Good news that their meat is UK sourced. I agree this should be shown more in marketing and packing.

    Dont know how feasable it would be, but how about some premium regional burgers? Didnt BK do an angus burger? Why not have a Lincolnshire Red burger or something like that?

    Oh, and could they sort of my main gripe, that is how different the 'product' looks when you get it from how it is advertised? It cant be the most complex thing to assemble a burger without it falling over in the packaging and getting mangled.

    Take the dough and stay real jiggy.
    Uh-huh.
  • Wed, Oct 17 2007 11:23 In reply to

    Re: Put your questions to McDonald's bosses

    A big thanks to all of you who have taken the time to post a question on this thread: I will certianly be putting a couple of them to the men at McDonald's especially the one from Dick about what's wrong with conventional milk and sjk about a possible lamb line of products.

    See a near-future issue of FW for the responses.

     Cheers,
    Andrew

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