Meaningful Milestones: Our Impact Timeline

Lagardère Travel Retail, a global travel retail company, has fully met its global cage-free egg commitment across all markets by the end of 2025, achieving 100% cage-free sourcing worldwide—including in Asia—through a combination of physical cage-free eggs and cage-free credits.

Since 2022, Mercy For Animals has engaged with Lagardère Travel Retail on the company’s progress.

PepsiCo’s corporate cafeteria in its Mexico City office successfully launched its new vegan menu on January 26 following months of close collaboration with our team. Each day the cafeteria will offer a rotating 3-course plant-based meal.

This launch marks an exciting first step. We’re continuing to partner with the culinary and service teams by offering tailored recipes, sourcing recommendations, and hands-on training for cafeteria staff to ensure long-term success.

By building strong internal capacity and demonstrating what’s possible at the corporate level, this partnership positions PepsiCo to achieve meaningful results—and opens the door to expanding plant-based menu offerings across additional client locations.

The state of Nagaland in India has announced a ban on swill feeding—the practice of feeding pigs unregulated food waste, including leftover kitchen and restaurant scraps. The decision marks another important policy win for animal welfare in India and reflects growing recognition among state governments of the serious risks swill feeding poses to pig welfare, food safety, and disease control.

Mercy For Animals continues to support policy efforts that eliminate the worst farming practices across the country, helping to reduce suffering for farmed animals and prevent the spread of deadly livestock diseases.

Following years of engagement and accountability efforts by Mercy For Animals, Dairy Queen has successfully fulfilled its cage-free egg commitment across the U.S. and Canada—ahead of its original deadline.

The commitment required all suppliers of shell eggs, liquid eggs, and proprietary ingredients to transition to cage-free systems. As a result, 100% of the eggs used in Dairy Queen’s U.S. and Canadian operations are now cage-free, or the products have been reformulated to eliminate eggs altogether—which is even better.

Beyond North America, Dairy Queen reports that 99% of egg use across its international operations is cage-free. The company is currently working with a remaining supplier in one region to transition a proprietary sauce ingredient to cage-free eggs, which will complete the commitment globally.

Our team kept the pressure on Dairy Queen by featuring them multiple times in our Canada Animal Welfare Scorecard.