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
In the US and in line with World Health Organization guidance, our sandwiches, wraps, and salads are served only with chicken raised without antibiotics important to human health.
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.
In addition, in Europe we have confirmed our intent to adhere to the European Chicken Commitment. Read more here.
Pork
Subway recognizes the importance of sow and piglet welfare in our pork supply chain, and we support sow husbandry and housing approaches that create improved animal welfare outcomes. We have completely phased out of gestation crates in our European supply chain, and we are actively engaging with our US suppliers to evaluate sow housing approaches that improve welfare while maintaining commercially viable pricing.
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.