{"id":1466,"date":"2001-12-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/12\/18\/2001-12-18-australian-hindus-aghast-at-mcdonald-s-beefy-french-fries\/"},"modified":"2001-12-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-18T12:00:00","slug":"2001-12-18-australian-hindus-aghast-at-mcdonald-s-beefy-french-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/12\/18\/2001-12-18-australian-hindus-aghast-at-mcdonald-s-beefy-french-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Hindus Aghast at McDonald&#8217;s Beefy French Fries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hinduism Today<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>HOMEBUSH, AUSTRALIA, December 18, 2001: The Hindu Council of Australia has confirmed that McDonald&#8217;s fast food restaurants in Australia have been cooking their french fries in a frying mix of 92% beef tallow and 8% cottonseed oil for the last twenty years. This is the same practice abandoned about 15 years ago by McDonald&#8217;s in the USA, who then started using vegetable oil for the fries. Just this year, however, the USA McDonald&#8217;s revealed they still put a small amount of beef flavoring in their fries, resulting in a lawsuit by Hindus. McDonald&#8217;s in Australia wrote to the Hindu Council that they have always published lists of their ingredients and &#8220;have not promoted or published any of the products [including the french fries, hash browns and apple pies] outlined in your letter as being vegetarian.&#8221; The address for the Hindu Council of Australia is 17 The Cresent, Homebush, NSW 2140, Australia.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hinduism Today HOMEBUSH, AUSTRALIA, December 18, 2001: The Hindu Council of Australia has confirmed that McDonald&#8217;s fast food restaurants,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}