Silicon Valley, USA - Fast food giant McDonald’s will pay USD 10 million to 24 groups, including International American Gita Society, as part of a settlement of lawsuits charging that it had misled Hindu and vegetarian consumers by "wrongly describing" its French fries, containing beef additive for flavouring, as vegetarian.
McDonald’s has informed in a recent letter to the International Gita Society, a Bay area-based non-profit organisation, that it is among the groups receiving the settlement money, its spokesman Ramananda Prasad said.
"We are such a small organisation, and nobody supports us, the temples are busy with their own activities," Prasad, who founded the society in 1984, told India-West.
The money has to be used for developing a website for the Gita, especially ‘Gita for Children’, he said.