On the important French Fry Question

Brad Mayer bradley.mayer at ebay.sun.com
Mon Jan 22 13:24:14 PST 2001



>John Thornton wrote:
> >On another note, what the hell are you people doing
> >patronizing McD's? I suppose you shop at WalMart too?

Yes, and drink coffee at Starbucks, too! I'm on the way to get one now...


>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

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