Food not Bombs and Midlands Vegan Campaign join up in anti-Mcdonalds action

Birm­ing­ham Food Not Bombs returned to the streets on Sat­ur­day the 13th of Octo­ber for Nation­al Anti-McDon­alds Day, in com­bi­na­tion with the recent­ly formed Mid­lands Veg­an Cam­paign.

We set up direct­ly in front of the McDon­alds and Pret a Manger (which is owned by McD) on Cher­ry Street, Birm­ing­ham City Cen­tre, serv­ing “fast food” in the form of cooked-on-the-spot veg­gie burg­ers (with home-made veg­an may­on­naise and chunky toma­to sal­sa), as well as the tra­di­tion­al Food Not Bombs cur­ry and cakes.

The serv­ing was a resound­ing suc­cess, with FnB get­ting through approx­i­mate­ly 200 veg­gie burg­ers and sev­er­al large groups of young peo­ple who had been going into McDon­alds per­suad­ed to turn them down in favour of free veg­an food instead. Pub­lic reac­tion was over­whelm­ing­ly pos­i­tive, every­one from home­less peo­ple to stu­dents and shop­pers queue­ing up and small chil­dren even tak­ing sal­ad!

Infor­ma­tion was giv­en out about MCDon­ald­s’s exploita­tion of work­ers, its destruc­tive impact on the envi­ron­ment and about the con­nec­tions between food pol­i­tics and wider issues such as home­less­ness, pover­ty and war, as well as infor­ma­tion about veg­an alter­na­tives includ­ing fly­ers for the upcom­ing Free Veg­an Food Fair in Kings Heath on Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 10th.

Mid­lands Veg­an Cam­paign accom­pa­nied the stall with eye­catch­ing ban­ners, posters and plac­ards, as well as donat­ing a par­tic­u­lar­ly deli­cious car­rot cake.

All in all an extreme­ly enjoy­able, inspir­ing and sat­is­fy­ing day…

For more info and to get involved con­tact:
Food not Bombs: brum_fnb@lists.riseup.net or 07904529362
Mid­lands Veg­an Cam­paign: mvc94@yahoo.co.uk or check out www.veganmidlands.org.uk