OK, here are some drawings of the lines: I won’t eat at McDonald’s. Ever. Even the stuff they have that might be accidentally vegan, like, I don’t know, water, maybe. I just decided at some point that that place wasn’t for me and I had no interest in supporting them.
I will, however, use their bathrooms when needed. They’re very handy with their many locations, and I figure it’s a service they provide as a means of trying to apologize for killing bazillions of animals. It doesn’t come close to squaring that particular atrocity up, but I figure if I’m going to piss on something, I might as well piss on something owned by McDonald’s.
Now, here’s where it gets a little fuzzier. I don’t know if I’d choose their playland area to pass out drunk in. I guess if you’ve got to pass out drunk somewhere, a playland would be an appealing spot. Do they have those pits full of plastic balls? That might be nice, maybe. I’m not sure. I’d probably stay on the “no” side of that particular line. Waking up hungover in a McDonald’s would be too weird and leave too many questions.
Joshua Alger drew the line and found himself on the other side this week, but veganism probably didn’t come into the equation. I know this for two reasons: the article didn’t mention he was vegan, and the news media loves them some irony, and also because he was there with his two kids, and he told them to “bite the faces off” of the police officers who came to arrest him.
Our vegan parenting site is still growing, but there aren’t any articles there yet that provide guidance on what you can tell your kids to bite off of what. It’s kind of assumed that you know that one when you do your vegan swearing in ceremony thing.
What about you? What will you use a McDonald’s for?
