Icahn Enterprises Activist Presentation Deck
MCDONALD'S FAILED TO MAKE GOOD ON ITS 10-YEAR PROMISE
The Board has impugned its credibility on ESG by failing to deliver on its commitment to eliminate the usage of
cruel gestation crates in its supply chain
McDonald's
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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
REPORT
We Are Committed:
- To doing what is right
- To being a good neighbor and
partner in your community
To conducting our business with
the environment in mind
2002
McDonald's states it
plans to explore "sow
housing alternatives"
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February 13, 2012
McDonald's Takes Action
Toward Ending Gestation Stall
Use; Humane Society of the
United States Supports Effort
2012
McDonald's pledges to
eliminate gestation
crates from its supply
chain by 2022
McDonald's
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RANK:
#38
SCORE:
-8.57%
GRADE:
F
Despite some strides, McDonald's is underperforming
In 2015, McDonald's grmined to switch to 100% cage-free
eggs by 2025. Today, McDonald's that 33% of its
supply is cage free. This is loadable progress.
Additionally, McDonald's has a cito wwitch to
controlled atmosphere slaughter for chickens in its poultry
supply chain by 2024, which is also a positive step
However, on other animal welfare seas, the company is
dramatically underperforming
First, other than the above mentioned slaughter
commitment, McDonald's lacks any other policies to
meaningfully reform animal welfare in its poultry supply
chain. (While McDonald's writes much about the welfare of
broiler chickens, its language lacks the specifics needed for the
Humane Society of the United States to consider it meaningful.
This is why the HSUS created the website La Mol.com)
Also troubling is McDonald's recond on the issue of gestation
crate confinement. In February 2012, McDonald's
to eliminate pig gestation crates from its pork supply chain
"McDonald's wants to see the end of so confinement in
gestation stalls in our supply chain," said the company. A few
months later, McDonald's gifts goal of "ending"
gestation crate use, stating that objective would be accomplished.
by 2022. It additionally promised that as an interim step," by
2017, McDonald's would source pork only from producers who
share its commitment to phase out gestation stalls."
However, no major U.S. pork producers have disclosed
plans to eliminate gestation crates from their operations
While some, like Smithfield Foods, have dramatically reduced
their use of gestation crates, the minge confining money in
2017-2021
McDonald's is pressed
by stakeholders,
including HSUS, on its
purported progress but
ails to provide
meaningful,
transparent updates
By the end of 2022, the Company expects to source 85% to 90% of its U.S. pork
volumes from sows not housed in gestation crates during pregnancy. Despite
industry-wide challenges for farmer and producers, such as the COVID-19
pandemic and global swine disease outbreaks, the Company expects 100% of
its U.S. pork will come from sows housed in groups during pregnancy by the
end of 2024. For more information on McDonald's commitments, please visit
our Animal Health & Welfare page.
2022
After failing to meet its
2012 pledge,
McDonald's issues false
and misleading
information regarding
the use of gestation
crates in its supply
chain
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