Isn't Chipotle owned by McDonald's Corporation? Thought I read that somewhere...but I could be wrong...
No. Not since before Chipotle's went public back in 2006, and divested themselves of mickey's money. The business models are completely incompatible except for the sodas, which are Chipotle's biggest source of gmo ingredients. I think it's great that they're giving people a choice that they wouldn't otherwise have, and I hope they force the rest of these fast-food and food-processing assholes to change their ways. Sometimes the system has to change from within, and as people wake up to the poison being forced on them hopefully they will respond by making more intelligent choices. But yeah if you want a $1 double cheeseburger that will outlast cockroaches, you'll have to get it from the clown.
"Chipotle Mexican Restaurant made headlines this summer as the first US restaurant to commit to ridding its menu of GMO items. Director of Communications Chris Arnold had this to say about the company’s initiative:
“We decided last fall that this was something that really mattered to us,”Chris Arnold, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. Director of Communications, told the Daily News. “We don’t have a timeline to become GMO-free, but it is something that is very much in our crosshairs.”
As for now, Chipotle has identified several of its menu items—from tortilla chips to chicken cooked in soybean oil—as containing genetically modified organisms. Given the company’s preference for using organic, and locally produced ingredients, some customers were caught off-guard by the disclosure.
In fact, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, 93 percent of the soybeans grown in America, and 85 percent of the corn comes from genetically modified seed.
To help reduce the number of menu items that contain genetically modified ingredients, Chipotle has begun substituting a non-GMO sunflower oil for the soybean oil the chain fries its chips, chicken and vegetables in.
“We’re also testing a non-GMO rice oil in New York,” Arnold said. “We are working on the things that are within our control.”
For now, that doesn’t include replacing Coca-cola fountain soda dispensers at any of its 1,300 stores nationwide. Coke, of course, contains high fructose corn syrup, which is invariably made with GMO corn.
Purchasing meat is also a daunting question for any large restaurant chain considering going GMO-free, Arnold said, since a big percentage animals in the U.S. are fed corn grown from GMO seeds.
And the strategy has worked for the company: in a 2012 survey, consumers named Chipotle their favourite Mexican restaurant chain in the United States, with the greatest percentage of customers giving them 5-out-of-5 ratings for both food quality and cleanliness."
http://www.classwarfareexists.com/chipotle-launches-awesome-new-ad-attacking-gmo-meat/