Buy McDonalds, Plant A Tree.*

*a tree will most likely not be planted.

In a blatantly obvious attempt to pretend they give a shit, McDonald’s is working with notorious greenwashing corporate alliance Keep America Beautiful to plant a tree for every Smurf themed Happy Meal sold.

McDonalds and Keep America Beautiful are being very deceptive. Trees will only be planted if the Happy Meal customer chooses apples over fries AND goes to the Happy Meal website and enters a customer code. Also, this only applies to the first 100,000 codes entered. A weak attempt to save the planet from two of the Earth’s biggest enemies.

We really shouldn’t be surprised, Keep America Beautiful is funded by trolls like Phillip Morris and Anheuser-Busch. Their Board of Directors reads like a who’s who of evil corporate monsters (i.e. Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, Altria, Goldman-Sachs, Miracle Grow, Clorox, PepsiCo, and even McDonalds). Happy Meal tree planting turns out to a corporate greenwashing tactic to deflect criticism.

McDonalds is hoping you forget that their resource intensive beef farming and excessive overuse of packaging and their millions of acres of deforestation. They hope that you forget they purchase over 1 billion pounds of meat and dairy products every year. They want people to believe that they are environmentally responsible when they are the complete opposite. 

Happy Meals for a sad planet.