MCDONALD'S TO OPEN ITS FIRST
VEGETARIAN-ONLY RESTAURANT
VEGETARIAN-ONLY RESTAURANT
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McDonald's Corp., the fast food chain that brought the hamburger to the
world, is opening what may be its first vegetarian-only restaurants.
The world's biggest hamburger chain said last week that the locations in
India will serve only vegetarian food because of customer preferences
in the region. The company could not immediately say when the
restaurants would open or how many there would be. A 2006 poll found
that about 40 percent of Indians do not eat meat, and McDonald's is
eager to tap that 500-million-strong market. Already, McDonald's said its restaurants in India do not sell beef or pork, and that the kitchens are separated into sections for cooking vegetarian and non-vegetarian food. They have menu items that cater to local tastes, such as the Maharaja Mac, which is a Big Mac made with chicken patties instead of beef. It also offers a McAloo Tikki, a burger made with a spicy breaded potato patty, red onions, tomatoes and a “special vegetable sauce.” The chain offers such localized options in countries around the world.
The
opening of the vegetarian-only restaurants “further speaks to
McDonald's efforts to cater to local tastes,” the Oak Brook, Ill.-based
company said. Without providing details, it said the restaurants will be
in areas that are popular pilgrimage destinations. McDonald's said the
new restaurants are the only ones it's aware of that will serve only
vegetarian food. However, local franchises in India and other regions
may already have meatless menus. For religious reasons, beef is not
eaten by Hindus, who make up the majority of India's population of about
1.2 billion people. McDonald's has more than 33,500 locations around the world, but only about 250 are in India. As McDonald's faces rising competition and a volatile world economy, it has said it will focus on offering more food options that cater to local tastes in order to grow sales. Last month, the company said a key revenue measure came in flat for July, which was its worst showing in more than nine years. The figure had grown every month since April 2003. Since opening in1996, McDonald’s restaurants in India have never served beef, in deference to local sensibilities, as even non-vegetarians shun the meat, and primarily serves chicken burgers.
WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?
Anyone
who eats meat can’t help but be cruel. At one time or another or at all
times they must be cruel, because meat is produced by cruelty and
whatever you associate with, that quality you take on, consciously or
unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly. So chicken or goat or a cow or
pig or bird or whatever, these animals are killed. They are conscious
beings. They are living entities, like we are but in different form. So,
when they are killed, they are very frightened, they are very afraid
and they are full of fear and anxiety and all that fear and all that
anxiety is in their mind and that goes into their blood and that goes
into their meat and you kill that animal and eat that animal to live on.
Because to eat animals you have to be so cruel - so much cruelty and
violence is in the activity - that all that cruelty and violence comes
into you. So, in your basic dealings, your basic thinking there is
always a touch of cruelty or hardness or selfishness or meanness or
violence in your speaking, in your thinking, in your acting. You can’t
help it. The more you eat meat, the more your will be like this.Śrīla Mahanidhi Swami Mahārāja :
“Non-vegetarianism and Cruelty”
Lecture 6 on Caitanya Caritamrta, Kartika 2006
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Published by dasavatara das - "Vedic Views on World News"
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