Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has amped up his campaign against McDonald’s pig sourcing from suppliers who continue to keep pregnant sows in gestation crates, something that Icahn says is obscene. Icahn has nominated Maisie Ganzler, chief strategy and brand officer at Bon Appetit Management Company, and Leslie Samuelrich, president of Green Century Capital Management, for the 2022 director board election, according to a Feb. 20 press release by McDonald’s. The company accused Icahn of making nominations based on “a narrow issue” of McDonald’s pork commitment. Back in 2012, McDonald’s had pledged to eventually source pork from suppliers who do not keep pregnant sows in small crates. In 2017, the company predicted that it would achieve this target in the United States by the end of 2022. At present, producers contracted with McDonald’s move pigs out of small crates after confirming the animal’s pregnancy. Such confirmations are made only four …
Billionaire Carl Icahn Escalates Fight Against McDonald’s On Pig Policy
February 21, 2022
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