McDonald's is facing sustainability risks, says nominee director at McDonald's

Leslie Samuelrich, one of the activist investor Carl Icahn’s two director nominees at McDonald’s Corp (NYSE: MCD ), said she would push the fast-food giant to tackle sustainability issues.

Icahn, who is running a proxy fight against McDonald’s, is seeking two board seats at the company mainly over the treatment of pigs by the burger chain’s suppliers.

Samuelrich, the president of Green Century Capital Management, in an interview with Reuters, said ending the use of gestation crates would have other benefits like lowering crowded factory farms that cause pollution and will eventually lessen the environmental impact.

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