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McLibel : burger culture on trial
- Title
- McLibel : burger culture on trial / John Vidal.
- Author
- Vidal, John.
- Publication
- New York : New Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | KD373.M42 V522 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 354 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Morris, David, 1954- > Trials, litigation, etc
- Steel, Helen > Trials, litigation, etc
- Morris, David, 1954-
- Steel, Helen
- Morris, David, 1954-
- Steel, Helen, 1965-
- McDonald's Corporation > Trials, litigation, etc
- McDonald's Corporation
- McDonald's Corporation
- Trials (Libel) > England > London
- Medical protocols
- Food > Analysis
- Clinical Protocols
- Food > Analysis
- Medical protocols
- Trials (Libel)
- London
- England > London
- Genre/Form
- Trial and arbitral proceedings
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Day 222 -- Da do ron, ron -- Street legal -- M'Lud on their boots -- Action, lights -- Diet of words --Settling in -- Harum, scarum -- Seeing, believing -- In the forest, in the dark -- Middle England -- Eee-i-eee-i-oh -- Spy vs. Spy -- Loads of old rubbish -- Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to -- But it's not just McDonald's -- And it's not just Morris and Steel -- Day 313 -- Judgement day -- Last words -- Appendices -- Diary of the trial -- Afterword from the McLibel Two -- References -- Index.
- ISBN
- 1565844114
- 9781565844117
- LCCN
- 97069259
- OCLC
- ocm37955824
- 37955824
- SCSB-8872356
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library