{"id":38,"date":"2013-11-17T22:26:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/?p=38"},"modified":"2013-11-17T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T05:27:16","slug":"38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/2013\/11\/17\/38\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Social &#8216;Responsibility&#8217;&#8230; a sham?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/no-pedia.com\/data_images\/burger-king\/burger-king-06.jpg\" width=\"2008\" height=\"1355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Woah. Ever seen a burger look more perfect than that?<\/p>\n<p>Perfect on the eyes&#8230; terrible on the stomach. These little burgers can pack up a hell load of calories, and on top of that&#8230; do you know how they&#8217;re made and what they&#8217;re made of? Probably not. But listen to this, major fast-food chains are starting to modify their recipes in order to be more health-conscious.<\/p>\n<p>Subway, Dunkin&#8217; Donuts, and McDonald&#8217;s have all been looking at ways to make healthier menu options. Cutting down on salt, replacing sodium with mushroom powder&#8230; why are corporations doing this?<\/p>\n<p>Is it the attractiveness that it gives to customers? Or is there another reason?<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, these corporations are not doing this as a responsibility to the public. They&#8217;re completely fine with producing what they&#8217;re producing&#8230; if so many people didn&#8217;t object to it.<\/p>\n<p>As time goes on, more and more people becoming more health-conscious. Calories this, calories that. Obesity is a big issue in the States&#8230; to the cause of corporations who changes our diet to consist mainly of meat.<\/p>\n<p>This worked to their advantage&#8230; until now. Now that the demand is for &#8216;seemingly&#8217;\u00a0<em>healthier\u00a0<\/em>food, that&#8217;s where the companies will go. And not for the benefit of society&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-11-14\/2014-outlook-fast-food-chains-inch-toward-healthiness#r=hpt-ls\">http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-11-14\/2014-outlook-fast-food-chains-inch-toward-healthiness#r=hpt-ls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woah. Ever seen a burger look more perfect than that? Perfect on the eyes&#8230; terrible on the stomach. These little burgers can pack up a hell load of calories, and on top of that&#8230; do you know how they&#8217;re made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/2013\/11\/17\/38\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lenniemoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}