They plan to attend McDonald’s annual meeting to press their
point.
The sisters, according to a report
by Reuters, want McDonald’s to establish timelines for global shifts to
poultry, pork and beef raised without medically-important antibiotics.
The issue is not new; a similar proposal last year got
support only from about 20 percent of McDonald’s shareholders.
It's amazing how many urban people think they have the right to tell farmers how to raise livestock and poultry. And how successful they have been in persuading chief executives of major food retailers to listen to them instead of their farmer-suppliers.
