Burger King targets humane foods

The world's second largest burger chain - Burger King, announced they are going to increase supplies of humanely-sourced meat and eggs

Many of them had appreciated this move. The decision to encourage the use of cage-free chickens and free-range pigs will apply to the US and Canada. They have a plan to source 2% of eggs from non-caged birds and 10% of pork from pigs allowed to roam freely. "The fact that Burger King has made positive changes for some of the animals killed for its restaurants will send a ripple effect through the fast food industry," said PETA spokesman Matt Prescott. In February, UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's promised to cease selling battery eggs by 2012. Burger King also said they would use only controlled stunning as the way to kill birds to prioritise products from suppliers. If this is implemented it is expected 100% of its 600 million eggs sold annually will be either free-range or barn eggs laid by hens allowed access to natural light