Yum! Brands Makes Empty Envrionmental Gesture

What? Just because the toilet water in that KFC bathroom is rain water run-off somehow offsets the vast, fossil-fuel dependent distribution system required to transport millions of unsustainably harvested mutant chickens to your thrice-stapled American stomach?

A KFC/Taco Bell co-branded store in Northampton, Mass., has been awarded LEED Gold certification, according to Yum Brands.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a program of the Chicago-based U.S. Green Building Council that rates buildings on several elements, including how sustainable a site is, water-use efficiency, energy efficiency and innovation in design.

Yum’s new restaurant is designed to use 30 percent less energy and water than a conventional building, to cut carbon dioxide emissions, to reduce waste and educate customers and employees on sustainable design, the release said. [Business First]

Okay, okay… so maybe if every KFC/Taco Bell on the planet did this then we’d be one step closer towards pleasing Pamela Anderson, but this is nothing more than a greasy finger in the popcorn chicken-laden dyke. Cluck that.

3 Comments

  1. Kathryn
    Posted June 23, 2009 at 10:49 pm | Permalink

    I can’t believe you didn’t link to the pizza hut/taco bell song by das racist in this post. I’ll do it for you- this is supposed to be larry david singing it, but I can’t tell if it’s really him.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxxDMgGi9sU

  2. jmeador
    Posted June 24, 2009 at 7:25 pm | Permalink

    I can believe it, but thanks the same for exposing our readership to that horrifically wonderful video (they forgot KFC, sadly).

    And that ain’t LD, BTW; just the coolest dad ever.

  3. Kathryn
    Posted June 24, 2009 at 7:56 pm | Permalink

    Yeah. Why would Larry David be cooking Christmas dinner? Not him. cute though.

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