Government subsidies, Ron. The US Government pays McDonald's to open up outlets all over the world, and then the CIA/NSA Cartel puts RFID chips in the food so that when you eat or drink something a tiny little transmitter is implanted inside you. This sends out your words and thoughts to a super-secret site called the "NRAO" in Greenbank, West Virginia, which concatenates them and sends them directly to George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, who giggle over them every morning during coffee. Eventually the RFID chip will pass out of your system, but even then the plague is spread, because the chip eventually moves becomes part of the wastewater sludge, which is spread over fields which grow either food for you or food for animals -- the chip passes from the soil into the plants and then either back into someone and the cycle begins all over again. Eventually, these chips will be "seeded" from space satellites onto existing fields of crops and/or included with seeds. By the year 2009 everyone in the world will have a tiny RFID transmitter chip implanted in them, and this new generation of chips will be capable of receiving as well as transmitting. Soon you'll hear voices in your head, as I do know, telling you things like "Eat at McDonald's" and "Kerry is a weenie" and "Buy an AK-74 and take out everyone at work."