McDonald's faces a class action motion in Haifa for allegedly frying corn nuggets in the same oil used to fry chicken.
Naama Dotan claims in her motion that throughout a long period of time, she had bought the corn sticks from McDonald's for her vegetarian daughter. Then they learned that the product had been fried in the same oil as the chicken nuggets.
Since discovering that, she claims, her daughter has felt disgusted and refuses to eat the McDonald's corn sticks.
McDonald's admitted that it uses the same oil to fry the corn and chicken products, Dotan says. But McDonald's said it did not purport that the corn was a vegetarian product.
The affair caused her daughter anguish and derogated from her autonomy, Dotan charges. She also says that the corn sticks McDonald's sells are made by Tivall, which presents them in the media as "a light vegetarian meal".
The fact that the corn products are fried in the same oil as the chicken products amounts to misleading the public, Dotan avers. McDonald's received a vegetarian product and changed its nature without disclosing that to its vegetarian customers.
McDonald's has yet to respond to the allegations.
McDonald's launched its first chain in Israel in October 1993, and today has some 80 restaurants around the country.
