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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Edward Helmore

Carl Icahn pressuring McDonald’s to improve welfare of pigs raised for meat

Gestation crates are so small that the pig cannot get up and tun around.
Gestation crates are so small that the pig cannot get up and tun around. Photograph: Thomas Suen/Reuters

One of Wall Street’s most fearsome activist investors has launched a campaign to force McDonald’s to change the way it buys pork for its Bacon McDouble Cheeseburgers, Sausage McMuffins and McRib sandwiches.

Carl Icahn, whose long history as an asset stripper precedes him, plans to challenge the practice used by some of McDonald’s pork suppliers of confining pregnant pigs in small crates and not in group housing.

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