How to Be a Conscious Eater

for broiler chickens—from Compass Group and Aramark, the

earliest adopters, to Au Bon Pain, Burger King, Chipotle, Jack

in the Box, Pret A Manger, Red Robin, Sodexo, Starbucks,

and Subway, as well as Royal Caribbean Cruises, Blue Apron,

sweetgreen, and Pollo Tropical more recently. The compli-

ance date for nearly all of them is 2024. But no chain has a

greater influence on the marketplace than McDonald’s. This is

because of its sheer size. Unfortunately, it sets its own animal

welfare policy, which the coalition considers less ambitious.

Similarly, more than 200 large food companies—

McDonald’s, IHOP, and Cheesecake Factory, as well as some

of the same ones that are on board with the broiler chicken

policies, like Aramark, Compass Group, Jack in the Box,

CHICKENS HAVE GOTTEN BIGGER OVER TIME

Here are the numbers, according to the National Chicken

Council.

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28 DAYS

56 DAYS

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