Egg Farmers of Canada Welcomes McDonald’s Canada’s participation in the New Egg Quality Assurance Program

July 31, 2019 Egg Farmers of Canada

Egg Farmers of Canada is proud to announce their work with McDonald’s Canada, beginning with the launch of the Egg Quality Assurance™ (EQA™) certification mark on McDonald’s advertisements this summer for the freshly-cracked Canada Grade A large egg in their limited-time Egg BLT McMuffin® sandwich.

McDonald’s Started Using Fresh Meat. Here’s What Happened to Sales

Last year, the burger chain switched to fresh beef quarter-pound burgers from frozen at most of its stores in the contiguous United States. That change has led to a 30% spike in sales of quarter pounders on average over the past 12 months, the company said Monday.

McDonald’s Joins the Meatless Burger Trend in One of its Biggest Markets

McDonald’s is inching closer to getting fully on board the meatless burger bandwagon with a new version in one of its biggest international markets.

U.S. Egg Market Cracks After McDonald’s Pledges Cage-Free McMuffins

April 15, 2019 Leslie Patton, Bloomberg

The world’s largest restaurant company is about a third of the way to meeting its goal of being entirely cage-free in the U.S. by 2025 — a target it shares with a broad array of retailers and food producers. The expected surge in demand has sparked barn upgrades across the country over the last several years, with producers building facilities that give hens a bit more space.

FFAR Announces $ 4M Animal Welfare Technology Research Initiative, In Partnership With McDonald’s

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) announces the launch of the SMART Broiler, a research initiative offering $4 million for research supporting the development and commercialization of automated monitoring tools that quantitatively assess key animal welfare indicators in broiler chickens.