Icahn once again said in an interview last week that the pig has a good brain and is an emotional animal. He really has feelings for the unnecessary pain caused by McDonald's.
The billionaire owns only 200 shares of the fast food giant, which is equivalent to about $25,000 worth of $654.38 billion+$087 billion. However, this did not stop him from nominating two new candidates for the McDonald's board of directors to support his case, because his motivation has nothing to do with profit.
McDonald's confirmed in a statement that investors have nominated two people to run for the McDonald's board of directors, which may be the first step to win the agency. Icahn only owns 200 shares of McDonald's, and he told Bloomberg that his motivation has nothing to do with profit.
Icahn's nominees include Leslie Samuelrich, president of Green Century Capital Management, which is committed to protecting "our water, air and land", and Maisie Ganzler, chief strategy and brand officer of Bonapé Tit Management. This may be the first step for Carl Celian Icahn to compete for agency.
McDonald's said in a statement on Sunday that it used pork in bacon cheeseburgers and sandwiches, and argued that pork suppliers had made some progress. In the statement, McDonald's admitted that Icahn was worried about pigs, but wondered why he didn't raise this issue in his pork and poultry supply company Viskase.
According to Icahn, McDonald's failed to fulfill its promise 65,438+00 years ago to stop buying pork from suppliers who use pregnant crates, which are special fences where pregnant pigs are kept most of the time, so they can't move.
In 20 12, McDonald's promised to gradually stop using pork from disputed suppliers. These suppliers use pregnancy crates, which are about the same size as animals and have no room to turn around or lie down.
At that time, the American Humanitarian Association expressed appreciation for this announcement. Recently, it accused McDonald's of issuing several statements about pregnancy termination boxes and allowing suppliers to keep sows in these boxes for several weeks in each pregnancy cycle of the sow's life cycle.
In the update of 20 17, McDonald's said that by the end of 2022, it will only buy American pork from producers who never use crates to raise pregnant sows.
Now, McDonald's predicts that by the end of this year, 85-90% of American pork will be purchased from pigs that are not put in pregnancy boxes, and by the end of 2024, it will be completely changed to boxless pork.
But Icahn is still dissatisfied with this. He said that the supplier of McDonald's will only be transferred from the crate after learning that the pig is pregnant, and the pregnant crate should not be used at this time.
Icahn said that he didn't want to tell people that they couldn't eat meat, but there was no need to put pigs in this pregnancy box to make animals suffer and then be killed.
Icahn's position is supported by the Norwegian pension fund KLP, which holds $72 million in McDonald's, including its bonds and stocks.
Kiran Aziz, head of KLP's investment, said that it is shocking that McDonald's has not stopped using pregnant pig bins cruelly in its supply chain, so people need to pay attention again and strongly appeal to other shareholders to pay close attention to this matter. Before these practices are banned, global rich companies like McDonald's have the responsibility to ban them immediately.
Although Icahn and KLP want McDonald's to buy only pork without crates, McDonald's thinks this requirement is unrealistic. McDonald's bought 1% American pork, and it doesn't own any pigs.