McDonald''s announces that it will have salad with organic vegetables in Brazil in 2017

SÃO PAULO-McDonald''s will have salads composed of organic vegetables in some of the restaurants of the network in Brazil, from the first quarter of 2017, reported earlier, the network operator in Latin America, Arcos Dorados, the Broadcast Agro exclusively. The company said it will be the first in the fast food business to adopt the initiative to include healthy foods on the menu.
The novelty will come gradually to consumers, starting with the capital of São Paulo. As the suppliers can expand the production, the network intends to increase the distribution of products in its restaurants across the country.
"The organic vegetable production is another innovative step will involve the promotion of family farming, something fundamental to the sustainable development of the sector," he said, in a statement, Paul Calderon, President of the Brazil Division of Arcos Dorados.
The organic salad is part of a group of sustainable initiatives in Brazil, which has already announced, for example, the purchase of verified and meat from regions with sustainable practices. Until 2022, its suppliers of pork should limit the use of cells of gestation and use only the system of collective farms.
Recently, the company also announced that it will buy only eggs from cage-free hens from 2025 and only buy from suppliers that do not use protein antibiotics to promote animal growth.