McDonald’s influence on the supply chain

The news that a third of McDonald’s eggs in its US supply chain are now sourced from cage-free systems just three years after it announced it would be totally cage-free in three years shows its impact on the supply chain. The fast food giant, which was established in 1940, buys about two billion eggs a year – almost 2% of the total in the USA. And when it made its announcement to go cage-free in September 2015, more than 200 other food businesses announced they would follow suit and change