The Humane Society of the United States is reaching across the Canadian border, asking the Ontario-based Tim Hortons restaurant chain to disclose to its shareholders the feasibility of ensuring that bacon and other pork products the restaurant chain uses in its U.S. locations does not come from pigs traced back to systems using gestation-sow stalls. HSUS is a shareholder of Tim Hortons. The HSUS proposal will be voted on at the company’s annual meeting in May.

This proposal mirrors McDonald’s plan announced in late February, in which it asked its suppliers for a report on their long-term gestation-sow housing strategies. McDonald’s has given its suppliers a deadline of reporting back by May. McDonald’s believes – there are alternatives that we think are better for the welfare of sows.

According to its web site, Tim Hortons is the fourth largest publicly-traded quick service restaurant chain in North America and the largest in Canada.

Courtesy: NAFB News