McDonald’s Hummers a Big Bummer

McDonald’s is giving away toy Hummers in its “boy” Happy Meals. What’s next? Wal-mart introducing a line of arctic fox stoles?

The Environmental Working Group has put up a parody site that allows you to generate your own golden arches sign on the subject. My favorite: “Would you like a war with that?” Next runner-up: “Global warming…I’m lovin’ it!”

From the site, you can also send McDonald’s an email asking them to end this campaign, which in a world of scare resources sends the wrong message to both kids and their parents. Let them hear from you.

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10 thoughts on “McDonald’s Hummers a Big Bummer”

  1. Please stop putting a Hummer toy in your boys Happy Meal.
    Is it a happy thought to damage the enviroment recklessly, to add to the suffering and starvation in the world for a gas-hogging testosterone rush?
    Just when we thought McDonald’s couldn’t get any more irresponsible….
    People are dying every day to gain control over dwindling oil resources for corporate profiteering, do you endorse this slaughter for greed?

  2. To McDonalds,
    You aren’t happy with feeding people a two day supply of fat,with extra salt? Now you have to promote global warming,and irresponsible fuel consumption?What’s next? How about toy AK-47s,or a contest for free passes to go kill an endangered species?
    This has got to be one of the most ignorant “Happy Meal” promos I’ve ever seen.Stick with promoting movies geared towards kids.I’ll bet Ray Kroc is doing somersaults in his grave,seeing what his company has become.

  3. Somehow I doubt that Hummer runs on biodiesel. Maybe Bill Bennett will step up and ask, ‘where’s the outrage”, like he did when President Clinton got his Hummer.

  4. I have girls who got Polly Pocket dolls instead of Hummers. But the Happy Meal box is about as offensive as the Hummers. It (I kid you not) has a graphic on the side with a game about taking your Hummer to the countryside to enjoy nature. (or what’s left)

  5. After feeding the public with a recipe for obesity, it’s just a marketing tie-in for the necessary vehicle it’ll take to haul their fat butts around.

  6. The Hummer is a toy. So what? It’s not as if it gets less vroom vrooms to the gallon.

    The real problem is that the child was taken to a McDonald’s to eat in the first place.

    You can put clownface lipstick on a poison, but it is still a poison.

    Do you want to serve poison to your children? Of course not!

    Instead, make a couple of fresh fruit smoothies to go, and then take the kid to the toystore.

    http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/pretrial/factsheet.html

  7. What about the environmental message McDonald’s projects with the whirling spot lights atop their stores throughout the mid-west? These lights can be seen for miles. One of the great pleasures of life was looking out and appreciating the splendor of the night time sky. I live in a rural area and the views of the Milky Way, constellations, and meteor showers were awe inspiring. No more. The swirling beam of light from the local McDonald’s nine miles away wipes out my view of the entire southern sky. A once impressive natural wonder has been transformed into a vulgar advertisement for Big Macs.
    Toy hummers are offensive. The bombastic search lights are an environmental crime. Who’s on board to persuade McDonald’s that it’s time they owned up to their responsibilities as a corporate neighbor and environmental steward?

  8. Gosh, Orion, I had no idea about the lights. Are they like the ones on the top of patrol cars? That sucks major ass. Why AREN’T people speaking up? That’s light pollution, by any definition.

  9. The McDonald’s lights are manufactured by National Event Marketing, Inc. dba Sky-View Company. To get a better idea of how the lights appear, you can go to Sky-View’s web site at: http://sky-view.com/
    The home page has several photos of their product in action, including a photo of a McDonald’s.

    These lights can be seen from 18 to 20 miles away. They can be set to rotate at various speeds. From my home nine miles away, the beam extends from the ground to about half way to my zenith (the highest point overhead). The path of the light describes a cone large enough to obscure the constellations of Sagittarius and Scorpios in a single sweep.

    There have been local complaints. McDonald’s doesn’t care, they can take advantage of communities that have no existing light pollution or light trespass ordinances.
    It is difficult to make some understand not only the aesthetic issues involved, but also to appreciate the amount of energy consumed and wasted on these lights that operate from dusk to dawn most everyday of the year.

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