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Sign the Petition: No to McDonald's in Downtown Watsonville
Watsonville City Council members are elected to speak for us, let's make sure they know what we want! Another fast food restaurant is not it, especially not in our beautiful and historic downtown. Sign the petition and show up to the October 14 council meeting to show your disdain for their approval of something that will only hurt our community. Bring posters, handouts, fact sheets or whatever you feel will help convince our council members that another McDonald's will in no way benefit our residents. We can stop this from happening. Our children deserve better. Watsonville has moved forward, a McDonald's would be a huge step back.
SIGN PETITION HERE: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/no-to-mcdonalds-in-downtown-watsonville
Comments left on the petition so far:
"We will not improve the health of our community both physically or financially by yet another fast food restaurant."
"No way in hell do we need three. Two is bad enough."
"ENOUGH is ENOUGH! No more McDonald fast food. Get a Fast Food Salad and greens all you can eat!"
"We need more healthy restaurants ...not more of this unhealthy fast food restaurants in Watsonville..."
"No more McDonalds!!"
Background
Watsonville council urged to flip McDonald's OK. Restaurant set to be built on Main Street near Riverside Drive (September 24)
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/watsonville/ci_26595340/watsonville-council-approves-downtown-mcdonalds
"Opponents plan to urge the Watsonville City Council to rescind its OK for a downtown 24-hour drive-through McDonald's. The council approved construction of the fast food restaurant at Main Street near Riverside Drive on a 6-0 vote Tuesday. But the project requires changes to an ordinance governing drive-through restaurants. The council is scheduled to take a second vote on that provision Oct. 14."
Watsonville faces a growing number of overweight children (2009)
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_11656090
"About 31 percent of Watsonville's children are obese by age 8, and another 23 percent are overweight, a study for the Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust found last year."
"Nationally, 15 percent of children are obese and 30 percent are overweight, which makes the local numbers especially troubling. Doctors say being overweight puts children at risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and early puberty, and they are more likely to be obese as adults, increasing their chances for a stroke and cardiovascular disease."
Indybay event listing for October 14 Watsonville City Council meeting:
No to McDonald's in Downtown Watsonville
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/09/24/18762046.php
Comments left on the petition so far:
"We will not improve the health of our community both physically or financially by yet another fast food restaurant."
"No way in hell do we need three. Two is bad enough."
"ENOUGH is ENOUGH! No more McDonald fast food. Get a Fast Food Salad and greens all you can eat!"
"We need more healthy restaurants ...not more of this unhealthy fast food restaurants in Watsonville..."
"No more McDonalds!!"
Background
Watsonville council urged to flip McDonald's OK. Restaurant set to be built on Main Street near Riverside Drive (September 24)
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/watsonville/ci_26595340/watsonville-council-approves-downtown-mcdonalds
"Opponents plan to urge the Watsonville City Council to rescind its OK for a downtown 24-hour drive-through McDonald's. The council approved construction of the fast food restaurant at Main Street near Riverside Drive on a 6-0 vote Tuesday. But the project requires changes to an ordinance governing drive-through restaurants. The council is scheduled to take a second vote on that provision Oct. 14."
Watsonville faces a growing number of overweight children (2009)
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_11656090
"About 31 percent of Watsonville's children are obese by age 8, and another 23 percent are overweight, a study for the Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust found last year."
"Nationally, 15 percent of children are obese and 30 percent are overweight, which makes the local numbers especially troubling. Doctors say being overweight puts children at risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and early puberty, and they are more likely to be obese as adults, increasing their chances for a stroke and cardiovascular disease."
Indybay event listing for October 14 Watsonville City Council meeting:
No to McDonald's in Downtown Watsonville
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/09/24/18762046.php
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Regularly eating Big Macs will kill you. In a broader view McDonald's harms communities while pocketing huge profits. They suck money from local economies while ruining the health of mostly poor people who eat there. Eating Big Macs daily will also harm your mental health — it's time to start holding corporations like McDonald's responsible for the suffering they cause.
McDonald's also enslaves low wage employees — the working poor — forcing them to subsist on public assistance, draining the economy. We need living wages, not poverty wages.
http://youtu.be/I1Lkyb6SU5U
http://youtu.be/ueQrIZGKiAU
McDonald's also enslaves low wage employees — the working poor — forcing them to subsist on public assistance, draining the economy. We need living wages, not poverty wages.
http://youtu.be/I1Lkyb6SU5U
http://youtu.be/ueQrIZGKiAU
Communities should ban McDonald's because fast food adversely affects mental health, like causing anxiety and depression. It is also rumored to lower IQ. Big Macs adversely affect your brain chemistry.
http://livehealthy.chron.com/mental-effects-fast-food-diet-2597.html
McDonald's is messing with our brains:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/you-illuminated/201108/7-things-mcdonald-s-knows-about-your-brain
http://livehealthy.chron.com/mental-effects-fast-food-diet-2597.html
McDonald's is messing with our brains:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/you-illuminated/201108/7-things-mcdonald-s-knows-about-your-brain
McDonald's is destroying the world's forests, especially the Amazon, among all their other evils. To quote:
"McDonald's spend over $1.8 billion every year worldwide on advertising and promotions, trying to cultivate an image of being a 'caring' and 'green' company that is also a fun place to eat. Children are lured in (dragging their parents behind them) with the promise of toys and other gimmicks. But behind the smiling face of Ronald McDonald lies the reality - McDonald's only interest is money, making profits from whoever and whatever they can, just like all multinational companies. McDonald's Annual Reports talk of 'Global Domination' - they aim to open more and more stores across the globe - but their continual worldwide expansion means more uniformity, less choice and the undermining of local communities."
For a more complete description of their wrongdoing, read and watch:
http://www.mcspotlight.org/campaigns/translations/trans_uk.html
http://youtu.be/Ui5eKqITKII
"McDonald's spend over $1.8 billion every year worldwide on advertising and promotions, trying to cultivate an image of being a 'caring' and 'green' company that is also a fun place to eat. Children are lured in (dragging their parents behind them) with the promise of toys and other gimmicks. But behind the smiling face of Ronald McDonald lies the reality - McDonald's only interest is money, making profits from whoever and whatever they can, just like all multinational companies. McDonald's Annual Reports talk of 'Global Domination' - they aim to open more and more stores across the globe - but their continual worldwide expansion means more uniformity, less choice and the undermining of local communities."
For a more complete description of their wrongdoing, read and watch:
http://www.mcspotlight.org/campaigns/translations/trans_uk.html
http://youtu.be/Ui5eKqITKII
McDonald's externalizes its costs. Each Big Mac costs society about $200. Think about it. Big Macs are cruel too.
http://bigthink.com/videos/the-200-fast-food-burger
http://bigthink.com/videos/the-200-fast-food-burger
Every time someone buys a Big Mac they're contributing to discrimination against the disabled. This McDonald's kicked out a group of mentally disabled adults. Pay attention to how the McDonald's spokesperson spins it. But I believe the woman who accompanied them — she's credible with no axe to grind — that McDonald's discriminated.
http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/01/mcdonalds-kicks-out-developmentally-disabled-group.html
As a counterpoint, I applaud the high school in Aptos, California. These kids are an example for McDonald's to learn from.
http://abc7news.com/education/aptos-makes-touching-move-with-homecoming-king-vote/326608/
http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/01/mcdonalds-kicks-out-developmentally-disabled-group.html
As a counterpoint, I applaud the high school in Aptos, California. These kids are an example for McDonald's to learn from.
http://abc7news.com/education/aptos-makes-touching-move-with-homecoming-king-vote/326608/
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