{"id":503735,"date":"2010-04-01T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-01-mcdonalds-responds-to-april-fools-story-via-twitter\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T19:17:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:17:22","slug":"mcdonalds-responds-to-april-fools-story-via-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/503735","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s responds to April Fools&#8217; story (via Twitter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Grist <\/p>\n<p>It looks like McDonald&#8217;s has a Big Mac&ndash;sized sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The official McDonald&#8217;s Twitter account responded to readers&#8217; questions about our <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-01-mcdonalds-scraps-composting-program-food-decompose\/\">April Fools&#8217; Day report<\/a> saying that McDonald&#8217;s is scrapping a composting plan because its food <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-18-a-happy-meal-still-looks-fresh-on-its-first-birthday\/\">won&#8217;t decompose<\/a>. While some people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenprophet.com\/2010\/04\/01\/19311\/mcdonalds-decompose\/\">didn&#8217;t realize<\/a> it was fake news, McDonald&#8217;s did, and responded to a tweet from Edible San Francisco saying:<\/p>\n<p>@<a class=\"tweet-url username\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/EdibleSF\" rel=\"nofollow\">EdibleSF<\/a>: This one had us laughing \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; It&#8217;s an <a class=\"tweet-url hashtag\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23AprilFools\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"#AprilFools\">#AprilFools<\/a> joke! <\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s another:<\/p>\n<p>@<a class=\"tweet-url username\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/aarieff\" rel=\"nofollow\">aarieff<\/a>: They say April Fools jokes are a form of flattery!<br \/>\n This one had us laughing too! ^Mol<\/p>\n<p>@aarief responded: &#8220;But what r u doing about waste?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s linked to the company&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutmcdonalds.com\/mcd\/csr\/report\/environmental_responsibility.html\">sustainability practices<\/a>, where, regarding packaging and waste management, they are &#8220;exploring ways to reduce the environmental impacts of our <br \/>\nconsumer packaging and waste in our restaurant operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s points to the 1990s where they &#8220;eliminated 300 million pounds of product packaging.&#8221; Come on McDonald&#8217;s, that&#8217;s sooo last century!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve got a long way to go before they hear us saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m lovin&#8217; it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-02-al-gore-wants-earth-day-volunteer-videos\/\">Al Gore wants Earth Day volunteer videos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-01-epa-cracks-down-on-mountaintop-removal-coal-mining\/\">Obama&#8217;s mountaintop-removal crackdown could mean more than offshore drilling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-01-rachel-maddow-takes-on-denial-funding-koch-industries\/\">Rachel Maddow takes on denial-funding Koch Industries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=344bfc8bddc4c9dd2bf6aa6ded77354f&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=344bfc8bddc4c9dd2bf6aa6ded77354f&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Grist It looks like McDonald&#8217;s has a Big Mac&ndash;sized sense of humor. The official McDonald&#8217;s Twitter account responded to readers&#8217; questions about our April Fools&#8217; Day report saying that McDonald&#8217;s is scrapping a composting plan because its food won&#8217;t decompose. While some people didn&#8217;t realize it was fake news, McDonald&#8217;s did, and responded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}