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There are 5 questions about “Free range products” in the “What are you doing about...” topic.
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- 1. Are you trying to move to use free range chickens/eggs instead of battery cage ones?
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Planned European legislation will require battery farming to end in approximately the next six years in Europe. McDonald's UK only use free-range eggs and work very closely with Freedom Foods and the RSPCA to ensure all of their egg producers work to a high level of animal welfare and are approved to Freedom Food standards. McDonald's also work with their suppliers to enrich the environment for free range produce which includes initiatives such as providing additional shelter and planting trees so that the chickens can have a more comfortable and protected environment.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 2. How far are you going to wipe our the use of battery farmed eggs? And can you go further, even, than free range eggs and chickens, since free frange doesn't necessarily mean a good quality of life for chickens.
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Planned European legislation will require battery farming to end in approximately the next six years in Europe. McDonald's UK only use free-range eggs and work very closely with Freedom Foods and the RSPCA to ensure all of their egg producers work to a high level of animal welfare and are approved to Freedom Food standards. McDonald's also work with their suppliers to enrich the environment for free range produce which includes initiatives such as providing additional shelter and planting trees so that the chickens can have a more comfortable and protected environment.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 3. Isn't the industry known for the horrendous cruelty taht they put their animals through such as the battery hens?
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The industry may have had some bad press in the past in relation to animal welfare. McDonald's believes that the welfare of animals is very important, and for that reason will not work with any supplier that does not adhere to its high standards, and those required by UK and EU legislation. The British Poultry Council also sets high standards of welfare in relation to the production of chickens, which is managed through a set of standards called Assured Chicken Production (ACP). McDonald’s and other food manufacturers subscribe to these, and expect the same high standards of their producers and farmers. You might also be surprised to find out that last year McDonald’s was awarded an RSPCA Alternative Award for its commitment to improving animal welfare, within the ‘fast food’ category.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 4. If you insist on using freerange eggs in some of your food, why then do you also use Hellmans mayonnaise? They are well known for only using battery farmed hens eggs in the mayo, surely you could source a freerange mayo if you looked for one.
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Hellmann’s make a special mayonnaise for McDonald’s that does, in fact, use only free-range eggs.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 5. It's great that your eggs are free range. Do you see a day when the chicken you use will be free range?
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Potentially, but at present there are no plans to do this. The free-range market is a small specialist market which can’t presently supply the large quantities that McDonald’s UK would require. However McDonald’s is a co-sponsor of The Food Animal Initiative who are running a research project looking into the possibilities of commercially viable free range chicken meat production.
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