Mcdonald's and Corporate Irresponsibility

Typically everyone will enjoy McDonald’s every once in a while, even if you are not a fan of fast food restaurants. Even though the food is inexpensive, it comes at more of a cost to the environment and the global economy than we may know. McDonald’s has a harmful impact on the environment in many ways. Besides the pollution from the factories where their food is created, the impracticable squander from nearly all the food they sell, and the large

or so many years our society has been thinking of forming new creative and innovative businesses, which would be more environmental and customer friendly. Nowadays a large number of different companies follow the social, ethical, as well as moral consequences when it comes to their decision making. One of the relatively new concepts involving economic and social concerns is Corporate Social Responsibility. Many of us apply this approach not only at work, but also in everyday life without even recognizing.

When an ethical dilemma turns to lies. On Oct. 20, 2014, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald sixteen times. Once the tape was released thirteen month later, the relationship between the community, the mayor, and the Chicago Police Department was shattered.

Placing food scraps in a closed, leak-proof, durable and reusable container, and having it frequently emptied for donation or composting can significantly reduce, and even eliminate these problems. Preventing food waste is an essential and simple part of meeting the food demands of a growing population, just a 15% reduction in food waste in the U.S. could feed 25 million Americans.

Every day, millions of products ranging from burgers to soda cups are packaged in paper and plastic which effectively becomes detrimental to the earth. Although there have been many controversies regarding the negativity of McDonald’s bio hazardous ways, the article focuses on three strategies of how McDonald’s corporation deviates away from serious trouble. The first is by selling the culture of McDonald’s to the consumer, the second is through transforming the ground which ultimately means that McDonald’s would define the environmental issue according to what they believe to be urgent and critical, and last is through commodification of their products. By advocating a healthy and concerned image of their company, the corporation got away with deviance at an extreme

To say McDonald’s should take responsibility for a customer’s weight gain is ignorant and completely unjustified. This company does not claim that their burgers and fries are good for you, so why should they be punished? Parents involved in the 2002 lawsuit claim McDonald’s caused obesity in their teens, “Ms. Bradley's father, Israel, who now lives with his daughter in Brooklyn, said he never saw anything in the McDonald's restaurants he visited providing information about the ingredients in the food, according to court documents. ''I always believed McDonald's was healthy for my children,'' he said in an affidavit,” (Santora). There is a nutrition calculator located on McDonald’s website, and, at many restaurants, there are nutrition facts

In this case the plaintiff asserts that on April 28, 2014, she purchased a cup of coffee at the McDonald’s Restaurant in Ishpeming, Michigan. After she left the restaurant, while drinking the coffee she detected a sharp object in her mouth which became lodged in her throat and caused her to choke. The plaintiff claims that she pulled her car over to the side of the road and removed the object from her throat and mouth.

Companies today are heavily influenced by the demands of customers and stakeholders. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to the social and environmental responsibility policies and practices developed by an organization to increase its positive influence and reduce its negative activity towards society (Parks, 2008). The business approach and corporate philosophy of an organization is easily altered due to economic pressures, technological improvement and stakeholder needs and demands. "Going green" or being eco-friendly is one such demand. Environmental and sustainability concerns originate most often from governments, consumer activists, and the general public (Schlosser, 2008). Thus, organizations must implement sustainability into daily practices. In addition, sustainability alters the nature of competition and drives companies to think differently about products, processes, and technologies (Parks, 2008).

I think that the Authors main idea for this article is to show how McDonald’s can be ignorant to their workers. First, instead of helping them by getting higher wages, they are trying to show them how they can live with the wages they are making. Which is an insult to those who are earning low wages. Second, why would they want to be educated on how to live on almost nothing? When the author suggested that the $13.8 million Owner of McDonalds try to live on the McBudget it truly shows how the author feels about the budget that they were giving to the workers. When all our daily expenses are added up it’s a big sum that doesn’t add up with the budget system they have created.

McDonald’s PLC, is one of the largest fast food chains in the world, with 32,000 outlets in 117 countries. In the UK the first restaurant opened in 1974 and now in the UK stores alone, the chain serves 2.5 million customers daily. In the early 2000’s McDonalds saw for the first time some of its outlets closing, and drastically had to rethink the way that it operated. It was struck with a damaging title of the firm that didn’t care with non-eco-friendly practises, (the ecologist: 2011) and with the negative publicity

I recall hearing about a case years ago when a lady sued McDonald’s over a spilled cup of coffee. I remember thinking to myself how lucky this lady must have been to win so much money over something that seemed frivolous to me. I felt as though she had won the lottery for something she not only could have prevented by using reasonable care, but also for something that happens often without a striking settlement of 2.9 million dollars. Without looking into the details then, I recently found out how misunderstood this story actually is.

Corporate social responsibility has been one the key business buzz words of the 21st century. Consumers' discontent with the corporation has forced it to try and rectify its negative image by associating its name with good deeds. Social responsibility has become one of the corporation's most pressing issues, each company striving to outdo the next with its philanthropic image. People feel that the corporation has done great harm to both the environment and to society and that with all of its wealth and power, it should be leading the fight to save the Earth, to combat poverty and illness and etc. "Corporations are now expected to deliver the good, not just the goods; to pursue

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food wastage, “food produced and not eaten,” emits enough greenhouse gasses (GHG) to be ranked third amongst global emitters (FAO 2013, 6). In New York City (NYC) it is estimated that businesses “produce more than 650,000 tons of food waste annually” (Turso 2017). This specific food waste is classified as food scrap, cooked food which is still edible, but no longer useful to the business due to a myriad of reasons. Whatever the reason may be for the company, this tonnage of food has the potential and possibility of being recovered for redistribution to food banks, soup kitchens, and other food rescue organizations. For example, two of the largest organizations in NYC, City Harvest and Food Bank NYC, will collect around 59 million and 24 million pounds in 2017 respectively, of unprocessed/non-perishable food. This is equivalent to about 42 thousand tons or 6.5 percent of annual food waste from scraps. Despite having warehouses, fleets of vehicles, and numerous volunteers, two of the largest organizations barely make an impact on the total amount of food rescued versus food wasted.

In 1954 Ray Kroc became the first franchisee appointed by Mac and Dick McDonald in San

The public are now environmentally aware, hence McDonald’s has to pay more attention about environment. Thus McDonald’s have to be environmentally friendly.