McDonald’s Pigs and the SEC’s ESG

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17 min listen
Samuel Block, Jonathan Ponder
March 13, 2022
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Carl Icahn, a billionaire investor and storied corporate raider, has mounted a proxy fight at McDonald’s Corp. to change how it sources it’s pork. At the moment, McDonald’s, and all other fast-food companies, source pork from farmers that use what are called gestation crates. These crates have caught the ire of Icahn and the US Humane Society for some time, and they decided to mount a public proxy fight to change the practice. We discuss what this means for McDonald’s and the future of pork producers. Then, we look at the first enforcement action ever made by the relatively new SEC Climate and ESG Task force against Vale over its misleading ESG disclosures on the safety of its tailings dams.
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Samuel Block
Samuel Block
Vice President, ESG Research
Jonathan Ponder
Jonathan Ponder
Senior Associate, MSCI Research
Jonathan Ponder, ESG Researcher, MSCI

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