Published: 3:52PM Monday December 09, 2013 Source: ONE News
Source: Reuters
Healthy eating campaigners in Australia are up in arms over fast-food giant McDonald's move to introduce home delivery.
McDonald's recently introduced a trial of home delivery in the Sydney suburb of North Parramatta, offering ''family value' packs containing hamburgers, soft drinks, chicken nuggets and fries (with the option of side salads) between 5pm and 9pm every day.
A McDonald's spokeswoman told the Sydney Morning Herald the trial, which includes a $4.95 delivery fee and a $25 minimum spend, commenced two weeks ago and had so far been ''well received''.
However, the move is outraging many who say McDonald's has deliberately targeted one of Sydney's most disadvantaged areas which is already struggling with an obesity epidemic.
Australia's National Health Performance Agency recently found the western Sydney area, which includes the six suburbs the service delivers to, has the second highest number of overweight or obese adults, just behind south western Sydney.
Nutritionist Rosemary Stanton said the community needed more people eating McDonald's "like a hold in the head".
''Why are they introducing it there? Why aren't they introducing it into Mosman? Because people would be very unlikely to buy it,'' Dr Stanton told the Sydney Morning Herald.
The McDonald's spokesperson said the location of the store was chosen based on the population, density and accessibility of the area.
Home delivery is already available in many Asian countries, including Singapore and Korea.
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