The “Unhappy Meal” is a part of PETA’s McCruelty campaign, which is meant to warn children about the cruelty that PETA says is behind every Happy Meal. From animal cruelty to manipulating advertising that targets children, the charges that PETA is accusing McDonald’s of are expressed through this mock meal. According to Slashfood.com, PETA discontinued campaigns like the McCruelty one for the past nine years because it was working with McDonald’s behind the scene.
Each “Unhappy Meal” consists of an image of a knife wielding Ronald McDonald, pictures of mutilated chickens, a “blood” stained Happy Meal box and a complementary T-Shirt that reads “Chicken McCruelty.” A parent told a local news station that she felt what PETA was doing was unfair to children and young people shouldn’t be exposed to the messages that PETA is trying to get across.
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- Manatee_man
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How to go way overboard, on kids yet! TSK, TSK !
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- nursediesel
- 12 days ago
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Ha
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- Manatee_man
- 12 days ago
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I want to put all these people in Canadian wilderness and let grizzly bears eat all of them. PETA is so full of shit.
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watch the PETA episode of pen and teller's show "bullshit"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAt1z_TgPQ4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqlF2rvcYIs&NR=1 (part 2)
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It isn't the PETA aspect to me. McDonalds is just bad because the food is horrible. I think PETA goes way too far but I have to admit that the McCruelty meals are pretty cool looking. I would not mind getting one.
I just don't think they should be given to children. Clowns are scary enough without brandishing knives.
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- EdJoyProductions
- 12 days ago
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I remember when I was a kid, if someone got me clothes instead of a toy, I'd be pissed for a week. I'm taking it that these kids don't want t-shirts. Step it up PETA.
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PETA needs to have more sensible people handle their campaigns. This one is in bad taste and only works to turn people against their cause.
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PETA have the right intentions, but the wrong methods. Educate the public, not scare them.
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People Eating Tasty Animals. PETA.
Shit, tomorrow's Big Mac Monday.
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my version of PETA is prople eating tasty animals. But if the other one were to hane of these to my child, I'd probably punch him in the face, trying to traumitize my child like that. Isn't that called child abuse?
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Seriously peta, get some class. I mean giving kids pictures of mutalated animals, and a knife weilding clown, im pretty sure kids have a hard enough time being scared of the dark let alone mutalated farm animals and murderous clowns. I wouldnt hate PETA half as much if they just had some class and protested like most people, with signs and pamphlets, not trying to shock and scare people. They do have the right to do it so I cant stop them...
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- travism1337
- 12 days ago
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"Young people shouldn't be exposed to the messages that PETA is trying to get across."
Yes, let's allow our young people to continue eating food that causes them to blow up to whale-sized proportions, created by literally torturing animals in blissful ignorance. Because it's obvious that's what the rest of adult America wants to do, and exactly why people "hate" PETA so much. PETA holds up the mirror of the reality of the meat and dairy industries and it offends Americans because they don't want their ways of life to be changed or challenged in any way. It's hilarious that a woman would feed her child a chicken whose beak was cut off, and scalded alive and then complain that PETA is "exposing" her child to terrible images...parents shove these "terrible images" down their obese children's throats in the form of fast food. If you're bothered by PETA images, become a vegetarian. Or at the very least, realize you're bothered because you just want to keep stuffing your face with bacon cheeseburgers, regardless of where they come from or what they do to your fat ass.
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You may think that what PETA does is way over-the-top and stupid but chances are if you think that you're probably a meat eater. If I told you that the meat you eat is filled with unnecessary hormones, diseases, and even shit that still would not be enough to convince most of you idiots to not eat it.
So PETA stages absurd campaigns that irritate, annoy, and alienate people just like you because hopefully, if only for a second, you're forced to consider the food you eat and how it's produced.
If you want to blame someone, blame yourself.
And if you dislike PETA's campaigns and have ever commented, talked about, or bitched and moaned about then guess what...they won that round and you lost. Say what you want but I guess they just outsmarted you.
Enjoy your next shit burger.
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peta sucks balls
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- schellingjr
- 12 days ago
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PETA riding the ragged edge of actionable slander for maximum headlines.
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- bombastinator
- 12 days ago
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i respect animals, my totem is coyote. i have killed and eaten animals and for me it is difficult. bear tastes bad, like old pork and the grease stinks. snake is sort of like fish but i'd rather have a mouthful of crickets. we are very much like bear with our palates; mostly veggy, some meat. our closest relatives, the chimps, snack all day on veggys but when they kill a rival gang member or monkey, they have a formal quiet meal with their significant others. they do this without cutlery,of course, pulling apart and biting off muscle and fat, chewing carefully. nature is sharp of tooth and death is followed by being devoured, except in the twisted human burial practices. humans are selfish with their flesh, unwilling to even feed themselves to their pets. we go so far as to contaminate our meat with formaldhyde, so the worms are thwarted. at every turn, humans have lost touch with our natural place in the great circle.
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This is extreme and not cool. However, at the same time people need to stop sweeping this issue under the rug. What people do is disassociate the food with what it really is, and that's wrong. But to kids this is kind of rude.
And shame on Seth Meyers last night on SNL for making fun of ASPCA commercials. How else are we supposed to take action against injustice committed to house pets. Doing nothing because it's "creepy" and impolite? Please.
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Scaring children and making them feel guilty is such a low thing to do. PETA has become radicalized. They have to realize that there can be ways of fighting animal cruelty and fighting for animal rights without demonizing something that humans have been doing for millions of years or treating it as unnatural, because when they do they immediately lose alot of supporters.
I'll support the protection of wild cougars, humpback whales, bald eagles, the killing of polar bear mothers, etc.... but when you start telling everyone that they are evil for eating a burger then I'm sorry, but you lost my support...
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- UrbanGypsy
- 12 days ago
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PETArds.
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PETA is the worst. Their obvious intentions are only to draw attention to themselves. Disregarding their intent, the ethics are lacking. You can't advocate ending the exploitation of on species while exploiting another to get your message across. All of the nude campaigns, what is that intended to do other than entice people through sex appeal? a majority of the time PETA's tactics ignore informing people of the issues. this is coming from a vegan, so please don't give me shit about not caring /whatever else.
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calm down PETA gawsh
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- funkymonkey931
- 12 days ago
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I am not the biggest peta fan but are people really pissed about a couple McCruelty meals when McDonalds spends billions every year to brainwash your kids into thinking their food should be a diet staple... while parents let them?
McDonald's has a billboard on every corner, a shitty toxic sweatshop toy in every bag, and loads of toxins and cruelty in each meal they feed kids. Yet, people are going to focus on peta's advertising problems? Come on now.
Give me a break. This one's a win.
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- animalia_libero
- 12 days ago
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We should start making and eating PETA burgers
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- FishaHouse777
- 12 days ago
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ummm, im sorry but this country has gone to shits. We let our kids get fat and watch action movies. Yet we shun the idea of educating them on things like this or watch things of a sexual manner. Action = violence, fat = health issues, sex = love, education = intelligence. buuttt...we will choose the first two because they are easier or are part of our culture.
So dont say they cant see animals being killed, becasue they see humans getting kills on tv all the time.
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- NickerBocker09
- 12 days ago
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I bet it will make these kids think, which is a good thing. It will also make the parents have to confront serious issues with their children. Their might be a better way to go about it, but I don't see this as bad for the children. Understandably, their will be some adults outraged, mostly by the cognitive dissonance these meals bring about. It seems that when people can not refute an idea logically they resort to outrage.
Besides, this not any worse than the scare-fest my parents subjecting me to every Sunday when
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- existentialist
- 12 days ago
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