McDonald’s Canada Moves to Serve Free Run Eggs in its Restaurants

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McDonald’s Canada has recently announced that it will make the move to serve free-run eggs exclusively in its restaurants over the next 10 years. The decision was announced after years of mounting consumer pressure on the chain to improve animal welfare and animal quality used in its mass food supply.

Free-run eggs, however are different from free-range eggs. Free-range eggs mean that the chickens are allowed to roam freely outdoors, whereas free-run, which McDonald’s has decided to go with, with allow the hens to run freely indoors. Even this is a vast improvement, as it is reported that 95% of hens in Canada and the US are restricted to spending their lives in battery cages.

5% off McDonald’s eggs will be free-run by the end of this month, and 10% are expected to be free-run by the end of this year. Even this small of a change in 2015 will make a huge difference on the industry as McDonald’s used 120 million eggs a year for its breakfast items and 76 million alone just for its Egg McMuffin sandwiches.

The cost of free-run eggs is a worry to many, as free-run and cage-free eggs in grocery stores can cost up to twice the amount of regular eggs, however McDonald’s doesn’t see this as an issue, believing costs for free-run eggs will become lower as the rest of the industry adopts the practice.

McDonald’s competitors have already made similar moves in the past. Burger King committed in 2012 to be 100% cage-free by 2017, and Tim Hortons already sources at least 10% of its egg supply from enriched cage or cage-free systems. McDonald’s hopes to be 100% free-run in the next 10 years.

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