Popeyes is now the first major fast food chicken chain to sign the Better Chicken Initiative ensuring meaningful progress for millions of chickens each year. Specifically, by 2024 Popeyes has committed to:

Transition to using breeds determined to have better welfare outcomes
Provide more space by reducing maximum stocking density, per Global Animal Partnership (GAP) Standards
Enhance living environments including litter quality, lighting and enrichments, per GAP standards
Utilize a multi-step controlled-atmosphere stunning system

The company has also committed to utilizing third-party auditing to ensure compliance with these animal welfare standards.

Achieving such a massive victory for animals this early in 2020 is both exciting and encouraging for the year of progress ahead. Compassion USA would like to thank all of our supporters who took to the streets, made phone calls, or otherwise used their voice to demand that Popeyes take animal welfare seriously—as well as everyone who made this victory possible.

Here’s to bringing an end to factory farming.

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