Andrew Bolt has had a crack at McDonald’s for using their Happy Meals, in conjunction with Australia Zoo, to promote conservation of endangered animals. Now, I’m no fan of Happy Meals, and I’m vegetarian, but if Maccas is going to take advantage of kids they might as well push a worthy cause while they do it. However, Bolta sees a pernicious lefty conspiracy.

McDonald’s Happy Meal isn’t so happy when the kids are warned mid-bite that other animals – no, not the ones they’re actually eating – are endangered. It’s even less happy when McDonald’s has the hide to claim that fluffy wuffy kangaroos, cute elephants and lovable pandas are those close to extinction. Do they really expect the kids to swallow that?

Except it’s not a “fluffy wuffy kangaroo”, but a yellow-footed rock wallaby, and the yellow-footed rock wallaby is listed as near-threatened.

And the “lovable” panda is very much endangered, while only about 10,000 African elephants remain in the wild.

Does Bolta really expect his readers to swallow his McTripe? Of course he does.