This is interesting: Burger Kings in the South with Global Warming denying signs out front.

DuaneBidoux

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:46 PM
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This is interesting: Burger Kings in the South with Global Warming denying signs out front.

Apparently this is a chain of Burger Kings putting up "Global warming is balony" signs.

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/jun/01/burger-king-climate-change-whopper>

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donco6

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:51 PM
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1. Mirabile Corp - owns a bunch of restaurants.

The article says they all had a similar message up.

Not in line with corporate BK, it says.

Interesting. Good to know - makes it easy not to do business there.

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w4rma

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:58 PM
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3. I won't be doing business with *any* BK until corporate forces this franchise to remove them. (nt)

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Orangepeel

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Mon Jun-01-09 08:35 PM
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5. It looks like they'll force removal if they are told about them

from the article:

"...from Susan Robison, the vice president of corporate communications at the Burger King Corporation:

This statement <"Global Warming is baloney"> does not reflect a Burger King Corp. (BKC) opinion or view. The two restaurants where these signs appeared are independently owned and operated and were not authorized to display this statement. The signs have since been removed. BKC believes in operating as a socially responsible company and is committed to making a positive impact in the communities where it lives and works.

One imagines that someone at Burger King realised that the "global warming is baloney" line didn't exactly chime with the views of John Chidsey, the company's CEO, who believes that climate change is "an overriding issue of importance for the global community, business community and people in general", as he stated in this short interview conducted at this year's World Economic Forum. (How he squares this concern with his company's drive-thru, meat-munching business model is another matter, though."

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ieoeja

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Tue Jun-02-09 01:20 PM
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10. From the article.

"This statement does not reflect a Burger King Corp. (BKC) opinion or view. The two restaurants where these signs appeared are independently owned and operated and were not authorized to display this statement. The signs have since been removed. BKC believes in operating as a socially responsible company and is committed to making a positive impact in the communities where it lives and works.

"One imagines that someone at Burger King realised that the 'global warming is baloney' line didn't exactly chime with the views of John Chidsey, the company's CEO, who believes that climate change is 'an overriding issue of importance for the global community, business community and people in general', as he stated in this short interview conducted at this year's World Economic Forum. (How he squares this concern with his company's drive-thru, meat-munching business model is another matter, though.)"

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Cha

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:55 PM
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2. Wow..going for the idiot

trade.

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NYC_SKP

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Mon Jun-01-09 08:27 PM
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4. I knew this Sucker was Creepy..... Just Knew it!

:scared: :scared: :scared:

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Honeycombe8

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Tue Jun-02-09 11:30 AM
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6. Wow. How far are the freepers gonna go with their hate spewing?

Now they're putting their environment-hatred statements up on signs in front of business establishments, confident that others are as stupid as they are?????
:wtf:

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supernova

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Tue Jun-02-09 11:50 AM
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7. They're reduced to BK marquees now

that's all they have.

:rofl:

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wyldwolf

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Tue Jun-02-09 11:52 AM
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8. They're not called "Home of the Whopper" for nothing.

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montanto

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Tue Jun-02-09 12:06 PM
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9. GDP? Really?

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