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BK: Goals met for cage-free egg purchases

MIAMI Burger King Corp. said it achieved its 2007 goals for U.S. system purchases of crate-free pork and cage-free eggs.

Burger King said last March it planned to purchase 10 percent of its pork from suppliers that do not use sow gestation crates. It also said at the time that it would start buying 2 percent of its eggs from cage-free sources, with the goal of increasing that figure to 5 percent. Burger King said it has met both goals.

Burger King said that it purchased enough cage-free egg products in 2007 to produce more than 2 million Croissan'wich breakfast sandwiches. However, it said its supply goals for 2008 would not increase because of a limited commercial supply of cage-free eggs.

Burger King's results garnered the company an award from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, an organization that had been critical of the chain in the past. The chain received PETA’s Most Improved National Food Chain Proggy Award.

Burger King’s system in the United Kingdom and continental Europe already uses almost entirely cage-free pork and cage-free egg products.

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