nsnbc : Transnational fast-food giant McDonald’s has been hit by yet another smelly scandal. McDonald’s outlets in Shanghai have removed several burgers from their menu after a plant that delivers meat-products to McDonald’s and others was shut down for mixing out-of-date meat with fresh products. That is, the plant was shut down – one week ago.
Eaten a McDonald’s burger in Shanghai lately? Over one week ago a plant, privately owned by OSI Group was shut down for mixing out-of-date meat with fresh products. Five OSI Group officials which operated the Shanghai Husi Food Co. were detained after it was found that their products, which it delivers to KFC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Burger King, 7-Eleven and the world largest fast-food chain McDonald’s didn’t pass the smell test, so to speak.
McDonald’s national delivery hotline, on Monday, reported that beef and chicken products were currently unavailable in the Shanghai area. Fish and pork could be ordered, though!!!
The OSI Groups rotten business practice, figuratively speaking, is not the first smelly scandal to involve McDonald’s.
The burgers don’t necessarily have to contain out-of-date meat in order to violate the laws of one of the 199 countries where the fast-food chain operates.
Russian fast-food addicts and McDonald’s fans may also have to suffer abstinence from McDonald’s Cheeseburgers Royal Cheeseburgers, Filet-o-Fish, Chicken Burgers, Milkshakes, and Ice Cream with Fruit Toppings soon. That is, if Moscow’s Tverskoi Court agrees with the Russian Consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor.
The Russian consumer watchdog lodged a case following a planned inspection in May, of two McDonald’s restaurants in the city of Veliky Novgorod, located some 330 miles to the northwest of the Russian capital Moscow. A preliminary court date is set some time in August.
Rospotrebnadzor claims that several McDonald’s products contain higher levels of fat, protein and carbon hydrates than what is considered legal according to Russian laws.
Two other types of smelly scandals which the fast-food chain often has been implicated in are low wages and tax evasion. RIA-Novosti reports that McDonald’s has more than 35,000 outlets in 119 countries and that the annual revenue exceeded $28 billion in 2013.
Workers at McDonald’s, Yum Brands and other fast-food chains in the United States are so underpaid that a very high percentage of them depends on social benefits, paid by tax-payer money.
Meanwhile, McDonald’s et al. use loopholes in the U.S. tax codes to avoid paying taxes.
The 2013 U.S. tax code, for example, allowed corporations to deduct unlimited amounts of so-called performance pay from their federal income tax bill.
The more corporations pay their CEO, the less tax they pay. AlterNet reported in December 2013 that these firms CEOs combined pocketed more than $183 million in fully deductible “performance pay” in 2011 and 2012, lowering their companies’ IRS bills by an estimated $64 million.
Tax-paying McDonald’s customers in Shanghai apparently get smelly burgers as token of gratitude, while workers get absolute minimum wages where such even exist. Given the standard business practices, some may be surprised that McDonald’s in Shanghai removed burgers from its menu – more than one week after OSI-Group officials were arrested for adding out-of-date meat into fresh products.
CH/L – nsnbc 28.07.2014
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