McDonald's pulls internal website after it advised workers to avoid eating fast food

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CNN) -- McDonald's has pulled an internal website that advised its workers to avoid eating the fast food it sells.

It's the iconic fast food meal a burger and fries, and there it was on McDonald's own website dubbed unhealthy.

McResource, McDonald's internal website for its employees, told employees to eat a salad and sub instead and avoid the very food they sell.

The website said fast foods are typically high in calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt, and may put people at risk for becoming overweight.

Now McDonald's has shut the site down.

It was the last straw after a long list of embarrassments calling even more attention to what workers are already protesting, that it's hard to live on a McDonald's wage.

Recently, the web site instructed McDonald's workers how to find a second job, sell off possessions to get out of debt, and provided a hotline on how to get food stamps.

Another example: McResource linking to other sites with holiday tipping advice for au pairs, doormen, and pool boys.

McDonald's, in essence, said they're not "lovin' it."

"Between links to irrelevant or outdated information, along with outside groups taking elements out of context, this created unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary." - McDonald's

[Demeter]

1. Laughter is the best Medicine, they do say

so, McDonald's was doing a public service, of a sort...

[niyad]

2. "unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary"???? you mean, actually paying attention

to what the hell you are saying and doing, and commenting on it? wow, mcd's. . .just. . .wow.

[Silent3]

3. Do McDonald's employees get free and/or greatly discounted access to McDonald's food?

It's hard to say whether that could be called a benefit or not.

I'm not a purist or a food snob about these things, screeching POISON11!11! as some people do. The poison is in the dose, and some occasional McFood isn't going to be all that bad for you. But if discounts, or simply convenient access, lead McDonald's employees to eat what they serve many times a week, that would be a definite problem.

For myself, it's been a few months since I last ate at McDonald's. I eat at Burger King maybe once every month or so. Chipotle is my most common fast food, about once, sometimes twice, a week.