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McDonald’s Can’t Fool Its Shareholders: Big Chicken Is Bad Business

McDonald’s Can’t Fool Its Shareholders: Big Chicken Is Bad Business

By Taylor Ford Golden arches tainted with blood. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Headquarters of Cruelty.” Dozens of protesters. Horrified passersby. These spectacles are what McDonald’s employees saw outside their office windows during the company’s annual shareholder meeting at its Chicago headquarters in May 2018. As part of a massive coalition campaign, animal advocates staged […]

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    100% of McDonald’s Chicken Now Raised Without Antibiotics

    100% of McDonald’s Chicken Now Raised Without Antibiotics

    By Kari Hamerschlag When McDonald’s announced earlier this week that it has eliminated antibiotics important in human medicine from its entire chicken supply—at least six months ahead of schedule—the news filled me with optimism that we can make even bigger changes in how meat is produced in this country. The move, which comes after two […]

    Retire Ronald McDonald and Begin the End of Big Food’s Marketing to Children

    Retire Ronald McDonald and Begin the End of Big Food’s Marketing to Children

    Michele Simon Last month, I participated in an important panel at a childhood obesity conference to discuss the current strategy backed by some advocacy groups: asking industry to market “healthier” foods to children. But as Susan Linn and I recently argued, any marketing to children is harmful, regardless of the product’s nutritional content. Instead of […]