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McDonald's is synonym with fast food, and well-known around the world. They are also one of the most successful companies in the world. After learning these shady secrets, we wonder how they gained their success. If you love to eat their food, these secrets will probably catch you by surprise!

Here Are The Shady Secrets McDonald's Doesn't Want The Public To Know:

They once got (and still might get) their nuggets from lethally abused chickens
Obviously, to enjoy meat of any kind, some animal had to sacrifice its life. But it's always refreshing to know the animal lived peacefully before dying. According to summer 2015 footage released by activist group Mercy For Animals, McDonald's cares not one iota for that, working with farms that openly, brazenly, and possibly gleefully abuse their chickens before murdering them into almost-food. The farm that Mercy For Animals targeted, T&S Farm, was recorded beating chickens to death with spiked clubs, with the occasional curb-stomping for variety's sake.

They won't pay workers overtime for working major holidays
For a long time, McDonald's understood what Thanksgiving and Christmas meant, and so they allowed their workers to enjoy both the holiday and all the turkey they can stomach. But money cares not for our arcane traditions and emotions, and so in 2012 McDonald's started opening on the holidays. This was always a thing company-owned stores did, but now they were “urging” (forcing) franchisees to do the same. Apparently, doing so rakes in thousands per restaurant, which is all that matters anymore. And yes, if you've hit McDonald's either of these days, you're officially part of the problem. That's pretty awful, but at least franchise owners can pay holiday overtime. Workers at the company-owned stores, unfortunately, are fresh out of luck—McD's flat-out refuses to pay them extra for working on those days.

They're tax cheats
Like so many other thieving rich folk, McDonald's has apparently devolved into filthy, leeching tax cheats. According to the wonderfully titled Golden Dodges: How McDonald's Avoids Paying its Fair Share of Tax, between 2009 and 2013, McDonald's avoided paying over $1.8 billion in taxes. The company used a series of barely legal loopholes and cleverly shifting profits from whatever country they earned them in, to low-tax havens in countries they didn't. This seems to especially be true overseas, where McDonald's is looking at charges that they stole a billion euros ($1.1 billion American) from the European Union.

Its salads and oatmeal are unhealthier than their burgers

McDonald's chicken kale Caesar salad has 730 calories, 53 grams of fat, and 1,400 milligrams of sodium. In comparison, a Double Big Mac has 680 calories and 1,340 mgs of sodium, meaning their healthy salad is unhealthier than their unhealthiest hunk of cow. Or, you can skip the dressing, eat a plain dry salad, and save 200 calories, so now it's only unhealthier than a single Big Mac. For breakfast, McDonald's oatmeal clocks in at 290 calories, with 32 sugar grams. You would literally do better with candy for breakfast—a regular-size Snickers bar has 280 calories and 30 grams of sugar.

 

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Article Source: Grunge