On the important French Fry Question

[kelley]

At 11:33 AM 1/21/01 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>John Thornton wrote:
>
>>On another note, what the hell are you people doing
>>patronizing McD's? I suppose you shop at WalMart too?
>
>Hmm, so where's it stop? The computer I'm typing on was made a giant 
>multinational and assembled in Mexico. There's a stereo next to me made by 
>Sony in China. The coffee I'm drinking came from Kenya, a country filled 
>with poor and hungry people, and the beans were grown and picked under god 
>knows what exploitative conditions. You don't really believe that 
>individual consumption choices can clean an unclean world, do you?
>
>Doug

i don't think the outrage expressed here was anything other than elitism.