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No, McDonald’s will not be moving away from battery-cage eggs:

The board of directors of McDonald’s has recommended that the company’s shareholders vote against a proposal to require that 5 percent of the eggs purchased for the chain’s restaurants in the United States be the cage-free variety.

I guess the company feels like if they budge, its a slippery slope (towards a healthier and more humane world; danger!). This post on Green Inc. did lead me to some new knowledge:

McDonald’s had committed itself to going 100 percent cage-free by the end of 2010 for all its European operations. (The European Union passed a law that bans conventional battery cages starting in 2012).

Hey American, if large blocs of enlightened countries are banning something, we probably shouldn’t be doing it either. Just a thought.

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  1. I can’t even talk about how mad this makes me – its just SUCH an easy thing to do. We’re not asking them to start composting (although they should) or buying all their meat from local sources (god forbid). This is the easiest and laziest bit that they could do, and even that’s too much for this company.

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