Burger King promises to use free range eggs, pork

Burger King announced two animal-welfare efforts, saying it would shift to "cage free" eggs and buy pork only from hog farms that don't use gestation stalls to confine sows

For McDonald’s Corp., it’s business as usual — and that’s the problem. McDonald’s, which earlier this month reported its first monthly global same-store sales decline in nine years, hasn’t introduced enough new menu items to keep U.S. customers excited. While the company turned its sights on Starbucks Corp. in recent years in a bid to bring in new customers with McCafe beverages, Burger King Worldwide Inc. began luring business away from McDonald’s with more family-friendly foods, traditionally McDonald’s strong point.

Burger King Corp.promised Wednesday to switch to only cage-free eggs and pork -- a day after the reemergence of mad-cow disease focused national scrutiny even more on Americans’ food sources.

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? Burger King is making good on its promise in 2007 to move to suppliers that do not put chickens and pigs in cages by 2017, according to The Associated Press. The AP noted in its report that "the decision by Burger King, which uses hundreds of millions of eggs and tens of millions of ...

The movement by U.S. food corporations toward more humane treatment of animals experienced a whopper of a shift Wednesday when Burger King announced that all of its eggs and pork will come from cage-free chickens and pigs by 2017.

The movement by U.S. food corporations toward more humane treatment of animals experienced a whopper of a shift Wednesday when Burger King announced that all of its eggs and pork will come from cage-free chickens and pigs by 2017....