Laying Hens
Subway seeks to transition our entire global supply chain to egg procurement practices with improved animal welfare outcomes and we will accomplish that goal for our North America and Latin America restaurants by 2025, with 100% cage free eggs.
Broiler Chickens
By 2024, Subway is committed to implementing the following changes for our US chicken products and will demonstrate compliance via third party auditing.
- Source only chickens that are given more space, with a maximum stocking density of 6 lbs/sq. foot, per GAP’s standards;
- Ensure all chickens sourced have an improved environment, including litter, lighting and enrichment, per GAP’s standards;
- Source only chickens that are more humanely processed, through a multi-step, controlled-atmosphere system.
And by 2026, source only chicken breeds that are approved by Global Animal Partnership (GAP) as having higher welfare outcomes.
100% of the chicken served in the US has also been raised without antibiotics and fed a vegetarian diet since 2016.
Pork
Subway supports the elimination of gestation crates and we will work with our global suppliers to align our entire pork supply chain with a transition toward group housing. We have completely phased out gestation crates in our European supply chain, and we expect to reach similar milestones in the US by 2022 and Latin America by 2025.
Dairy
Subway seeks to transition our entire global dairy supply chain to be free of the supplemental growth hormone, rBST, and this goal has been accomplished in the US.