McDonald's - I'm Hatin' it!

A group of about 15 "twenty-something,"
self-described animal-rights supporters and anarchists held a protest
vigil outside the downtown Jerusalem branch of McDonald's Monday
evening.

The
group, blowing whistles and shouting through a megaphone, called on
passersby near the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall not to eat at the
restaurant, due to what they described as the food corporation's
harmful policies.

"McDonald's puts profits before people, animals and the planet," group leader Amnon Keren, 24, of Jerusalem, told Israel At Level Ground, and called on Israelis to boycott the chain.

Keren,
noting that the group had numbered about 30 earlier in the afternoon,
added that similar vigils were being held concurrently in front of
branches in Ra'anana, Kfar Saba, Haifa, Rehovot and Beersheba, as well
as at many locations worldwide today.

There
was a brief, non-violent, altercation with a diner, who, stepping out
to protest the noisy demonstration loudly argued with Keren over the
usefulness of such vigils.

A small crowd of about 20 pedestrians
gathered across the narrow street, and spirited discussions about the
eatery were bandied about. Several, apparently bemused, kipa-wearing
Jews, ironically found themselves on the same side of the ideological
divide as the protesters, due to McDonald's non-kosher status because
the chain is open on Shabbat.