{"id":6089,"date":"2011-10-19T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T09:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6089"},"modified":"2011-10-28T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T09:38:57","slug":"mcdonalds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/10\/19\/mcdonalds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s Joins Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csrwire.com\/press_releases\/33178-McDonald-s-Joins-Roundtable-on-Sustainable-Palm-Oil\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6091\" title=\"McDonald's Joins Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/111028_mcdo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutmcdonalds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> McDonald&#8217;s Corporation<\/a> (NYSE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/news_room\/Stock?ticker=MCD\" target=\"_blank\">MCD<\/a>) today announced its membership in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)<\/a>.  This membership represents significant progress in the company&#8217;s   commitment to source palm oil only from RSPO member companies by the end   of this year, and to use only RSPO-certified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutmcdonalds.com\/mcd\/csr\/about\/sustainable_supply\/resource_conservation\/sustainable_land_use.html?DCSext.destination=http%3A\/\/www.aboutmcdonalds.com\/mcd\/csr\/about\/sustainable_supply\/resource_conservation\/sustainable_land_use.html\" target=\"_blank\">palm oil<\/a> in restaurants and pre-cooked chicken and potato products by 2015. &#8220;Participating in multi-stakeholder engagements such as the  RSPO is  one way for us to put the power and leadership of McDonald&#8217;s  behind  commitments to continue to source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutmcdonalds.com\/mcd\/csr\/report\/farm_to_front_counter.html\" target=\"_blank\">sustainable ingredients<\/a> such as palm oil,&#8221; said Francesca DeBiase, McDonald&#8217;s vice president,   Worldwide Strategic Sourcing. &#8220;Sustainability issues as they relate to   food are often confusing to consumers, and we can help lead the way by   educating our customers on how our food is sourced.&#8221; McDonald&#8217;s uses palm oil primarily within Asia-Pacific,  Middle East  and Africa, and Latin America as a restaurant frying oil and  as a  par-fry for pre-cooking of products such as French fries, chicken   patties and Chicken McNuggets. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csrwire.com\/press_releases\/33178-McDonald-s-Joins-Roundtable-on-Sustainable-Palm-Oil\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: McDonald&#8217;s | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csrwire.com\/press_releases\/33178-McDonald-s-Joins-Roundtable-on-Sustainable-Palm-Oil\" target=\"_blank\">McDonald&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) today announced its membership in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). This membership represents significant progress in the company&#8217;s commitment to source palm oil only from RSPO member companies by the end of this year, and to use only RSPO-certified palm oil in restaurants and pre-cooked chicken and potato products&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6089"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}