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McLibel is the unlikely but true story of how a pamphlet called "What's Wrong with McDonald's?" led to the longest trial in British history. In what has become front-page news around the globe, the trial pitted the multi-billion-dollar corporation against five members of London Greenpeace accused by McDonald's of libel. Three activists capitulated and apologized; two persevered.
McLibel tells the story of the "McLibel Two" and the two-and-a-half-year trial in which the jeans-clad and impoverished defendants represented themselves against the best powdered-wig lawyers McDonald's could buy.
Does the fast-food chain exploit children? Depress wages? Level South and Central American rain forests? Subject its cattle and chicken to mass slaughters? A final chapter explores these allegations and details the $98,000 verdict against the activists Morris and Steel, which is widely viewed as a moral victory for the defendants and a public relations fiasco for McDonald's.
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Cases, Fast food restaurants, Libel and slander, McDonald's (Firm), Trials, litigation, Trials (Libel), McDonald's Corporation, New York Times reviewed, Trials, great britain, Libel and slander, great britain, Animal rights activistsPeople
Dave Morris, Helen Steel, David Morris (1954-)Places
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McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial
November 1997, New Press
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1565844114 9781565844117
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