Noodles & Company
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Noodles & Company is a fast-casual restaurant chain whose core menu items, including pasta dishes, soups, and salads, rely on animal products such as chicken, beef, and dairy. The company’s business model is built on the commercial use of animals for food.
In 2018, Noodles & Company made a public commitment to eliminate some of the worst forms of animal cruelty in its chicken supply chain by 2024, specifically pledging to ban the use of fast-growing chicken breeds that suffer from severe health problems. However, as of late 2023, the company had removed this commitment from its public materials without announcing the policy’s implementation. This failure to follow through on its published animal welfare promise indicates a lack of substantive progress in addressing systemic cruelty within its supply chain.
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