McDonald's Corp's 16,000 US and Canadian restaurants will serve only eggs laid by cage-free chickens within 10 years, the company said on Sept 9.
McDonald's USA has been buying more than 13 million cage-free eggs annually since 2011. The long-awaited switch is happening as North American egg suppliers are slowly starting to rebuild flocks after the worst bird flu outbreak in US history.
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