{"id":1536,"date":"2006-06-20T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2006\/06\/who-would-have-thought.html"},"modified":"2006-06-20T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T12:15:00","slug":"who-would-have-thought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"Who would have thought&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Amazing to find this on an official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdonaldsinteractive.com\/announcement.html\">McDonalds blog<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-style: italic;\">\n<li> Accelerating beef production was raising the levels of greenhouse-gas CO<sub>2<\/sub> considerably, through burning of forest and pastureland, for example.   <\/li>\n<li> Ever-increasing transport needs were also generating more CO<sub>2<\/sub>.   <\/li>\n<li> The ever-more-numerous cows were generating many millions more tons of methane, a greenhouse gas dozens of times more powerful than CO<sub>2<\/sub>.   <\/li>\n<li> The production of animal feed in the Amazon was deforesting one of the primary sources of CO<sub>2<\/sub> absorption.   <\/li>\n<li> These activities were cueing the simulation of other industries too, leading to more gas production there as well.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe the USA is waking up at last. The above was part of a speech by <i> Andrew Shimery-Wolf, Director, McDonald&#8217;s Interactive <\/i>and relates to a simulation game McDonalds were playing.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McLibel_case\">David Morris and Helen Steel<\/a> will get a huge payout from McDonalds for forewarning them about all of this in the McLibel case.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"blogger-preserved-comments\">\n<h2>Archived comments<\/h2>\n<p>These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown there are available; comment dates were not recorded on the page.<\/p>\n<article>\n<h3>Ellee Seymour<\/h3>\n<p>Original displayed time: 4:25 PM<\/p>\n<p>Is this why you are vegetarian? Why is a veggie reading a McDonald&#8217;s site?<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<h3>Geoff<\/h3>\n<p>Original displayed time: 4:32 PM<\/p>\n<p>Certainly one of the reasons. Its important to understand the dark side of life \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing to find this on an official McDonalds blog:- Accelerating beef production was raising the levels of greenhouse-gas CO2 considerably, through burning of forest and pastureland, for example. Ever-increasing transport needs were also generating more CO2. The ever-more-numerous cows were generating many millions more tons of methane, a greenhouse gas dozens of times more powerful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}