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McDonald's has been winning over the hearts and stomachs of kids and parents alike for years. Maybe that is because we weren't aware of the things they have been keeping from us. When you found out, it will leave you speechless.

The Secrets McDonald's Has Been Keeping From The Public Include:

They once got their nuggets from 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.

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” franchisees to do the same.

That's pretty sucky of them, but at least franchise owners can pay holiday overtime. Workers at the company-owned stores, 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.
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 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 from the European Union by sending their profits through Luxembourg, a country barely big enough to physically store all that money.

Its salads and oatmeal are unhealthier than their burgers

The chicken kale Caesar salad, for example, clocks in at a cool 730 calories, 53 grams of fat, and 1,400 milligrams of sodium—numbers that absolutely should not be attached to a bunch of leaves. For comparison's sake, a Double Big Mac has 680 calories and 1,340 mgs of sodium, meaning they're touting a healthy salad that's unhealthier than their unhealthiest hunk of cow. But don't worry, 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. The McOatmeal clocks in at 290 calories, with 32 sugar grams.

They'll sue anyone with ‘Mc' or ‘Mac' in its name

We have McDonald's going after literally any small business that uses “Mc” or “Mac,” because that's their thing, and they don't customers getting confused by seeing it anywhere else. The customer is apparently both always right, and the dumbest people on the planet.

Sometimes, they sue fast food joints, like McJoy in the Philippines or Mac Dooglas in Colombia But other times they just get petty, like when they sued a coffee shop called McCoffee—which had that name for 17 years—until they finally agreed to change their name and stop leeching tens of dollars from poor little McDonald's.

Maybe McDonald's Isn't So Great After All!

Now that you know McDonald's has been keeping horrible secrets from the public you may not like it quite as much.

Let Us Know How You Feel About It!

Article Source: Grunge