fast-food Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 29 May 2014 02:44:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Profits Over Environment for Fast Food Companies https://www.greenoptimistic.com/profits-environment-fast-food-companies-20140528/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/profits-environment-fast-food-companies-20140528/#respond Thu, 29 May 2014 02:44:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47770 Fast food companies are caught on a slippery slope. They know they need to get their act together to make a concerted commitment to limiting their impact on the environment – if for no other reason than as a great public relations event – but they are beholden to the mass-produced beef and palm oil […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/profits-environment-fast-food-companies-20140528/feed/ 0 47770 Fast-Food Lobbyists Fight Biofuel Law https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fast-food-lobbyists-fight-biofuel-law-20121208/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fast-food-lobbyists-fight-biofuel-law-20121208/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2012 06:29:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29562 American fast-food lobbyists are pushing back again an alternative fuel policy that requires gasoline to contain ethanol, a fuel produced from corn, and are asking Congress to repeal the law. Fast-food customers consume corn in two ways. The hamburger and chicken they eat in their meals come from an animals raised on corn. The fuel […]

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