McDonald’s Canada Testing Beyond Meat Burger

McDonald’s now offers a P.L.T. (plant, lettuce, tomato) Beyond Meat burger in select Canada locations. This progress comes following mounting pressure on the fast food giant to catch up with competitors, including hundreds of comments from Animal Outlook supporters and popular petitions like this one.

Though McDonald’s has previously tested vegan options in markets like Germany and the UK, the chain’s progress has been eclipsed by U.S. fast-food restaurants like Burger King, which began offering the Impossible Whopper nationwide this summer. Beyond Meat has also made its way onto menus, including the debut of a vegetarian breakfast sandwich at Dunkin’. 

The P.L.T. will be available for 12 weeks in 28 restaurants in Southwestern Ontario, CNBC reports. Vegans should request the burger without cheese and mayo.

This, however, may be the first step in a more widespread vegan option at one of the biggest fast food restaurants in the world–one that currently doesn’t offer any substantial vegan options in the U.S. Even the fries contain beef flavoring and milk.  

The rise in vegan eating is in part due to a growing awareness of the extreme suffering  on cruel factory farms, where animals are crammed by the thousands in filthy conditions for their entire short lives before a violent slaughter. We continue to shine a  light on the truth of the meat industry with powerful investigations and we work to make vegan choices more accessible than ever. Stateside, we continue to pressure McDonald’s to offer a nationwide vegan option, and to address egregious abuses in its chicken supply line.

The best way to get McDonald’s to ditch cruelty and pivot towards plant-based options? Tell them we want it. It’s time to let the fast food giant know that we want vegan options.

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