{"id":5275,"date":"2005-05-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/05\/25\/2005-05-25-mcdonald-s-to-pay-us10-million-in-french-fry-settlement\/"},"modified":"2005-05-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T12:00:00","slug":"2005-05-25-mcdonald-s-to-pay-us10-million-in-french-fry-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/05\/25\/2005-05-25-mcdonald-s-to-pay-us10-million-in-french-fry-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s To Pay US$10 Million In French Fry Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/003200505221465.htm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>CALIFORNIA, May 22, 2005: Fast food giant McDonald&#8217;s will pay US$10 million to 24 groups as part of a settlement of lawsuits charging that it had misled Hindu and vegetarian consumers by &#8220;wrongly describing&#8221; its French fries, containing beef additive for flavouring, as vegetarian. The 24 groups were approved by a US court, after a Seattle Lawyer Harish Bharti, filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, accusing the chain of deception in its claims of cooking fries in 100 per cent vegetable oil. The maximum compensation of $1.4 million, or 14 per cent of the award, was for Vegetarian Resource Group, followed by $1 million for North American Vegetarian Society. Other groups include Muslim Consumer Group for Food Products ($100,000), International American Gita Society ($50,000), Hindu Heritage Endowment ($250,000), Council of Hindu Temples of North America ($200,000), Guru Harkrishan Institute of Sikh Studies ($50,000), Hindu Students Council ($500,000), Jewish Community Centres Association ($200,000) and Tufts University ($850,000). The funds are intended to provide education and research into a healthy vegetarian diet as well as religious dietary laws and restrictions. Muslim and Jewish groups were included because the undisclosed beef additive was neither halal or kosher.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceCALIFORNIA, May 22, 2005: Fast food giant McDonald&#8217;s will pay US$10 million to 24 groups as part of a settlement,&#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-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","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=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}