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Burger King meets '07 animal welfare goals

March 26, 2008

MIAMI — Burger King Corp. met its 2007 objectives for U.S. system purchases of eggs from chickens raised in a cage-free environment, the company recently announced. The company also announced it achieved its objectives for the U.S. system's purchase of pork products from gestation stall-free operations.

In 2007, the Burger King system purchased enough cage-free egg product to provide the slice of egg on more than 2 million Croissan'wich breakfast sandwiches. Because of the limited commercial supply of cage-free egg product, the company has announced the same supply goals for calendar 2008. The system also purchased 10 percent of its pork products from gestation stall-free operations and plans to increase that amount for 2008.

The Burger King system in the United Kingdom and continental Europe uses almost entirely cage-free pork and egg products.