McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson has stirred controversy after telling a 9-year-old girl that McDonald’s isn’t junk food and claiming to have lost 20 pounds last while eating at the fast food restaurant everyday.
Hannah Robertson, daughter of a nutrition blogger and activist, spoke at a shareholder’s meeting and asked the CEO to stop tricking kids into wanting to eat their food. Thompson replied by telling the precocious child that “we don’t sell junk food”.
Not long after, Thompson was in the news for announcing that he lost 20 pounds in the last year by simply getting more active while still being able eating at McDonald’s everyday.
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