Major win: 100% of McDonald’s eggs in the US now come from cage-free hens

Excerpted from A Humane World Blog

In 2015, McDonald’s, one of the world’s largest and most iconic fast-food chains, agreed to switch 100% of the eggs that it purchases to only cage-free eggs in U.S. locations by 2025. This announcement followed a decades-long global movement against the extreme confinement of farm animals that the Humane Society of the United States helped spearhead, a movement that continues today. We rejoiced when the company made this commitment, as it had the potential to decrease the suffering of literally millions of hens every year. Having worked closely with McDonald’s on its animal welfare commitments, we were heartened this week by the company’s announcement that it had reached this goal early, at the end of 2023.

The impact is nothing less than astronomical, as McDonald’s purchases nearly 2 billion eggs each year from agricultural supply chains for its U.S. locations.

How to Eat Veg Guide from Mercy for Animals

A calorie of
vegetables takes almost
eight times less water
to produce than a
calorie of beef, and a
calorie of cereal takes
20 times less!
Better yet, crops use
around 80% less land
and emit 85% less
greenhouse gas.
Not to be outdone, plantbased meat, milk, and eggs
use up to 95% less water and
91% less land than animal
proteins and generate up
to 92% less planet-warming
carbon. Win. Win. WIN.

Excerpt from How to Eat Veg, a Mercy for Animals project.

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Bravo! Nestlé, the World’s Biggest Food Company, Expands Animal Welfare Commitment to Broiler Chickens ~ This is Big News, Time’s They Are a Changing

From Wayne Pacelle’s Blog – A Humane Nation

Today marks another milestone in our global campaign to improve the lives of animals in agriculture, with Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, demanding changes in the way chickens are raised for their meat. Nestlé will require a specific set of important reforms from all of its suppliers and will phase out its use of chickens from farms that breed, house, and slaughter the birds in ways that are simply no longer acceptable. Read more…

Breaking news: Campbell Soup Announces Major Reforms for Broiler Chickens

From Wayne Pacelle’s Blog “A Humane Nation”

I come from a working-class family – my father was a winning and hard-charging high school football coach and my mother a part-time secretary when she wasn’t managing a household of six (eight, if you include the dogs). Even though I loved animals, I had only a limited understanding of the depth and breadth of

Source: Breaking news: Campbell Soup announces major reforms for broiler chickens · A Humane Nation

Tim Hortons and Burger King commit to improved chicken welfare | World Animal Protection Canada

The announcement made today by Restaurant Brands International (RBI), the parent company for these two iconic brands, will positively impact the welfare of

Source: Tim Hortons and Burger King commit to improved chicken welfare | World Animal Protection Canada