Trump's embarrassing spread of cold McDonalds and Domino's for the Clemson Tigers' White House visit is overshadowing the dismal scores both corporations received for chicken welfare in a new report published by World Animal Protection. The animal rights charity graded several fast food giants on the overall welfare of the chickens that end up in their meals on the basis of three criteria: policies, targets, and reporting.
The fast food giants covered in the report include Starbucks, which has only "made robust commitments to improve chicken welfare in the US, but not elsewhere", McDonalds, whose targets--such as avoiding the use of broiler cages worldwide--do not follow best practices for chicken welfare, and Nando's, which generally publishes very little information about its chicken welfare practices and goals and has only a handful of targets specific to individual countries. From poor to failing, here's how the bottom end of the fast food ranking panned out:
Poor: Burger King, Starbucks, and Subway
Very Poor: McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Nando's
Failing: Domino's, PLC and Domino's, Inc.
You can read the report
here.
In other news, we're almost at the halfway point of
#Veganuary2019. Some relevant celeb tweets under the cut (incl. Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver trying to hop on the vegan bandwagon and Piers Morgan being Piers Morgan):
Chris Packham, British television personality
Angela Barnes, British comedian
Helen Lederer, British comedian, actress, and writer
Jay McGuiness, member of British-Irish boy band The Wanted
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