BOSTON—McDonald’s Corp. on Thursday said Carl Icahn’s call for the fast food chain to stop buying pork from suppliers that house the animals in crates would be logistically unfeasible and prohibitively expensive.
The billionaire investor, who owns roughly $50,000 worth of McDonald’s stock, is pushing the company to change how it sources its pork and has nominated two directors to the company’s board to help monitor progress on the issue.
He has said confining pigs in crates during their pregnancy is inhumane and McDonald’s pledged a decade ago to stop buying pork from suppliers that use the crates by the end of this year.
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