Editing McLibel case (section)

===Background===
{{Main|London Greenpeace|Helen Steel}}
[[File:"What's wrong with McDonalds - everything they don't want you to know" leaflet cover.jpg|thumb|right|"What's wrong with McDonald's: everything they don't want you to know", the cover of the leaflet at the centre of the libel case]]
[[Helen Steel]] and David Morris were two [[environmentalists|environmental]] activists of [[London Greenpeace]], a small environmental campaigning group that existed between 1972 and 2001. In 1986 they distributed "a few hundred copies" of a six-page leaflet titled "What's wrong with McDonald's: everything they don't want you to know" in [[Strand, London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/feb/16/foodanddrink|title=20-year fight ends with libel law in the dock|date=16 February 2005|first=John|last=Vidal|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref name="McLibel leaflet was co-written by undercover police officer Bob Lambert">{{cite web|title=McLibel leaflet was co-written by undercover police officer Bob Lambert |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/mclibel-leaflet-police-bob-lambert-mcdonalds|work=The Guardian|access-date=21 June 2013|first1=Paul|last1=Lewis|author2=Rob Evans|date=21 June 2013}}</ref> The leaflet accused the company of paying low wages, cruelty to animals used in its products, damaging the environment, and other malpractices.<ref name="Mark Oliver, McLibel">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/15/food.foodanddrink
|title=McLibel – Mark Oliver examines the background to the longest civil or criminal case in British legal history|first=Mark|last=Oliver|date=15 February 2005|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> The group were not affiliated with the larger [[Greenpeace|Greenpeace International]] organisation, which they declined to join as they saw it as too "centralised and mainstream".<ref name="second">p. 388 of ''No Logo''</ref>