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Is it a good thing that McDonald’s plans to limit its use of antibiotics in chicken?

Health

McDonald’s in the US will be limiting the use of anitbiotics in chickens. Is this a good thing? Let’s back up a bit. Why do farmers even use antibiotics and what’s so bad about eating a chicken with antibiotics in it?

Shanghai Husi Food - a major supplier to many foreign fast-food chains in China, including McDonald's and KFC has been accused of using tainted meat.

A meat scandal in China has customers asking just how safe is Western fast food?

Business, Economics and Jobs
Demonstrators holding posters march during a protest to demand higher wages for fast-food workers in front of a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in Tokyo's Shibuya shopping and amusement district May 15, 2014.

Fast-food workers around the world stage protests over low wages

Business, Economics and Jobs

McDonald’s bows to Spain’s schedule and serves breakfast until 1pm

Global Scan
Courtesy of The Center for an Urban Future

For New York City’s aging immigrants, it can be hard to create a community

Lifestyle & Belief
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Australian Town not Happy about New McDonald’s

Business, Economics and Jobs

The residents of the Australian town of Tecoma are fighting against a proposed McDonald’s restaurant opening in their community. The group, known as Burger Off, took a petition of 95,000 signatures to McDonald’s international headquarters in Chicago.

Can Fast Food Fight Obesity?

In recent years, McDonald’s and other fast food chains have created and emphasized some of their healthier menu choices in their marketing. Fast food has its fair share of critics who say that the processed foods served by chain restaurants are responsible for the obesity epidemic in this country. But in this month’s cover issue […]

Big Macs provide good glimpse of global economy

Development & Education

Orley Ashenfelter is a professor at Princeton University and the author of the Big Mac Index, a measurement of a nation’s wealth based on the average wages of a McDonald’s employee over the cost of a Big Mac. For example, McDonald’s employees in poorer countries would not be able to afford the food they serve.

America developing a serious taste for food trucks

Global Politics

Food trucks are cropping up around the country and doing innovative things with food. They’re drawing crowds, but also the ire of local restaurant owners, who say their lower cost of business is unfair competition.

India’s hair cutting magnate

Business, Economics and Jobs

Celebrity stylist Jawed Habib is creating a hair cutting empire in India.