McGardening in Motueka

i see Mot now has a KFC they are just as bad!

Great stuff! :)

wicked shit!

Great work. Finally some sensible protest action which wont alienate the locals..I'd even come along and help out.. Nothing but Support for your group... Mr Plod

I saw a documentary at my local video store called "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" and several communities fought against walmart setting up in their towns. the walmart strategy was to set up outside of the town limits and thereby avoid the ordinances banning them the locals got pushed through and also avoided paying land taxes to the town by locating themselves just out of town. not a bad doco. walmart is a department store sourcing chinese products whilst paying their staff crap wages like the warehouse does here.

Hi,

Am looking at this from Cork, Ireland. As a grower with a back and front garden, I love your poster, and am inspired by what you are doing. Corporations should not decide on what food we eat. Bio-diversity is the way to go, and no Corporation is into that.

Down with McDonalds, GM foods, and all attempts to control what we eat.

Regards,

Margaret O'Regan,
Cork,
Ireland.

If they sell enough Pot out of the Moto then they could outbid McD for the site!
What a wonderful idea??

Then it is a toss up from home many the kill from pot and from acrylamide.

Great a small child crawling around with broken glass on this site but at least they arent eating Mc Donalds - go fiqure

The way to stop McDonalds or anything like that coming in is to stop economic growth. Just like that. Living Economies we need and to start that we have to get as much as possible not to continue growing for the sake of growing. And yes that means populationcontrol as well,how hard that will be. Thanks.

you can't do it all.

These people are a bunch of w....kers . How dare they decide what I have a choice of eating !!!What happened to freedom of choice . I for one wopuld also never vote tara forde on the community board . She is supposed to represent the community not her own personal agenda .

Nutrition-less industrial food is killing us.

KFC do treat their chickens well - I dont think theres any dispute about that. But at the end of the day - its not all about chicken, people!
In the islands, people eat a lot of corned beef. And chop suey.
Is this because chicken is better than beef? I DONT THINK SO!
Life is a complicated process of instruction followed by feeling. This is why I always say, as they say "Live and let live"
So the meaning is not about KFC chicken or another chicken - the thing is, all chicken is just another alternative, and colonisation represents the theft of Fish.

the ppl protesting against mcshit probably eat KFC !!

Nice work! :)

Indeed, "live and let live"... I'm sure the KFC chicken would agree! (Yes, and the fish, and the cows...)

Isn't it always interesting how the people who do nothing are always the first to attack so-called 'double-standards'...?

Of course, never doing anything is an entirely consistent philosophy to follow. Whoopee, congratulations. That will ring in change.

the police came and got us.
we peacefully left the site, unable to identify who had dropped off the rocks, trees, plants, scarecrows, and signs. police removed on behalf of mcdonalds (i believe)
now we get the news that burger king want to come to Mot as well.
why won't the fuckers leave us alone? i won't buy there, but i will be affected by their hideous advertising, manipulation of children, rubbish which reminds me of the crap that some people eat, more animal suffering, and further lining the pockets of Peter Talley. Talleys supply so much fish to McDonalds, as if raping our oceans were a good thing. done in the name of progress. business. money. jobs. it is the quality of these things not their mere existence. happiness maximisation. arghhhhh
i'm sick of being personally attacked for having these viewpoints. i am presenting a rational argument that when we look at the evidence mcdonalds will not have a positive impact upon our town. lets weigh up the pros and cons. i thought that resource consent process was an attempt at this. whilst i still reckon it is fairly advanced for a society to be discussing resource allocation, the rma is so swung in favour of those with money and power. the community has some power in the long term resource managament plan. in this, we are meant to somehow pre empt developers and what they might want to get up to. but who bothers with this level of bureaucracy??? and why would people want to? politicians should be attempting to decipher some of this into positive action for better community say. instead they advocate for business. apparently this is what the community wants. move with the people, but jesus i would love to stop people eating this type of food.
<fucked off activist in Motueka>

Dear <fucked off activist in Motueka>,

I just want to let you know how fabulous I think you are.

What I think the “activist community” needs is more community-based activisim, as opposed to more rent-a-mobs, internet-revolutionaries, or transient out-of-towners.
(Read the essay “Dear Punk Rock Activism” by Andy Cornell – it’s excellent)

I think that the work that you’re doing in Motueka is the type of work that we need to see more of because it is active, direct, and community-based - you’re taking on globalisation &amp; industrial food, and the very personal way that they effect us, as the Motueka community.

Kia Kaha Community Action Crew,
Much love &amp; respect cos you’re awesome.

jo mcv

saw one of these sheilas who organised this scoffing her face with KFC !!! The blighter!!

HOW DARE THESE PEOPLE WHO OBJECT PLACE MY JOB AT TALLEYS AT RISK . dO THEY HAVE ANY IDEA how much money is spent by mcdonalds buying fish fillets for there burgers with talleys . If i was Mcdonalds i would buy frish from sealords and there goes 200 plus jobs out of Motueka . Domthese peoiple not realise they are jeopodising our income by this embarassing objection .

I think you've missed that point entirely. The point is representation, where as corporations have not only a great deal of representation they also have seemingly unlimited funds to spread that representation however they see fit. Individuals, political agenda aside, lack representation. Why is it any different one person or a group of people stating their preferences and agenda than a corporation, in this case Mc Donalds stating their preferences. Why do McDonalds have any more rights to set up shop than other people do to try and stop them ?!? As far as i'm concerned if people want to eat crap and have their livers shut down on them thats up to them. A kind of Darwinian thinning of the flocks. Eat crap, get fat and die. See if i care. But don't bitch when people actively use their time to try and make better decisions for your kids and their future. If the only time your going to complain is when you dont get what you want, then what a bunch of immature whinging a-political w...nkers you all are.
You may deserve all the crap you can fit into your grubby grease ridden little faces, but do your children deserve heart problems, liver failure and cancer because your to apathetic to think of the future ?!? Good work guys.