coordinator@greenbizsbc.org,

 

I am shocked and dismayed that a McDonald's restaurant would be chosen for a green business award despite what I am sure are sincere attempts to reduce their carbon footprint by the local owners of this McDonald's.  McDonald's Corporation is responsible for a huge amount of carbon being spewed into the atmosphere by the very nature of the industrial farming that is used in the highly processed unhealthy food they sell.  McDonald's makes no attempt to use organic food, so it is contributing to the massive amounts of pesticides and herbicides that are entering the land, rivers and oceans of the planet, to say nothing of our bodies and the bodies of other living creatures.  In my opinion this award is one of the most egregious cases of greenwashing I have ever seen.

 

Larry Saltzman

Co-Founder Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club