McDonald’s Video Game is a different kind of computer game. The player must manage soy crops and cattle, a combination feedlot, a restaurant, and corporate headquarters. Along the way, he sees graphic representations of “the price [we] pay in order to preserve our lifestyle” ―
There are inevitably some glitches in our activity: rainforest destruction, livelihood losses in the third world, desertification, precarization of working conditions, food poisoning and so on…
I hesitated to mention the game during the AFA boycott of McDonald’s, on the theory that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. But that would make this a one-issue blog, wouldn’t it?
Play it:
McDonald’s Video Game
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