there has been years. It was both in Britain and the USA. They were not letting people get organized or some such. I seriously cannot remember. sorry

I don't recall anything about McDonald's being anti-union. But they could be. I just researched it, and basically it's a struggle against minimum wage and bad hours. Which is basically the case in almost every single food service industry.

again, my memory fails me. I have a vague idea about cattle eating in the rainforest or some such, but that is just my mental image. I cannot remember what the original issue was

I also looked into that. The main deal with McDonald's is that they use waaaay too much packaging and are creating far too much litter.

ah, but currently they are making a huge fuss about having made a HUGHE burger which you need to lift in the correct way in order to not risk back-injury... etc. etc. it weighs 150 g! Another burgerjoint here makes 333g burgers.

It just annoys me. But it does not matter to me, obviously, since I do not eat there.

Alright, this part I don't understand. Basically, you're pissed off because they refuse to increase their burger size because it would risk the workers? And it seems unlikely to get injured from a burger, but McDonald's doesn't just make one burger a day. Working in food service is hard work and you get subjected to cuts, burns, etc. Not saying that huge burgers would cause the problems, but another reason for not increasing burger size is cooking time. If the burger size was increased, then the cooking time would increase and the service would be slower. It's a trade off.