McLibel

The McLibel Trial, now scheduled to last until the end of this year, is currently listening to evidence on McDonald’s connections to rainforests destruction. Ray Cesca (McDonalds Director of Global Purchasing) said in court that “McDonald’s opened the first of it’s restaurants in Costa Rica in December 1970” and that the meat supplied to them since that time “comes from ranches in areas which were deforested in the 1950’s and early 1960’s”. Howard Lyman, a fourth generation cattle rancher from Montana (USA), now an environmentalist, recently testified for the defence on the effects of cattle ranching on the environment and the animals.