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Sure, their restaurants are kid-friendly, some even featuring playgrounds, and what child can resist a Happy Meal with a fun toy inside? Unfortunately, McDonald's didn't rise to the top without stepping on some toes along the way, something which evidently was of little consequence to this giant of the fast food world.

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They once got (and still might get) their nuggets from lethally abused chickens
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. The workers knew full well what they were doing, with one outright asking the cameraman, “you don't work for PETA, do you?” like a kid caught with his hand in an extremely bloody cookie jar.
Since the video, McDonald's has disavowed the chicken-killing farm, giving the usual PR responses to assuage as many disgusted customers as humanly possible.

They won't pay workers overtime for working major holidays
In 2012 McDonald's started opening on the holidays. This was always a thing company-owned stores did, but now they were “urging” (or, really, 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. Commence feeling bad…now.
That's pretty sucky of them, 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 a day that, as far as many are concerned, should only be worked by those who deal in emergencies. (No, Big Mac withdrawal doesn't count.) They hide under the excuse that, because workers volunteer to work those days, they're not entitled to overtime pay.

They're 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 (and something not even that) 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 by sending their profits through Luxembourg, a country barely big enough to physically store all that money. Australia claims McDonald's did the same thing there, sending their profits through Singapore and magically pocketing about a half billion in would-be taxes. Even Brazil has a McBone to pick with the company, claiming they regularly bribe tax officials for minor favors like, oh, changing the laws so suddenly the company legally pays fewer taxes.

Wow!

Now that we know how McDonald's does business, we feel a little guilty that we've been giving them our hard-earned cash all of these years. However, now that they're under such intense scrutiny, maybe they'll clean up their act.

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Article Source: Grunge