The Wall Street Journal: McDonald’s treatment of pigs leads Carl Icahn to nominate 2 new directors

February 20, 2022

Carl Icahn has launched a proxy fight for two board seats at McDonald’s Corp., as the activist investor pushes the fast-food chain to require its suppliers to change their treatment of pigs.

Icahn has a very small McDonald’s
MCD,
-0.13%
stake and had been in talks with the company alongside the Humane Society of the United States for several weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month.

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