Controversies

Brazilian cage-free egg commitment criticism

Animal Equality criticized McCain over the delayed cage-free egg transition at Forno de Minas in Brazil. The controversy centered on the difference between the company's global reporting and the Brazilian subsidiary's revised target of 2030.

McCain faces frozen-potato price-fixing lawsuits

McCain was named alongside other major frozen-potato producers in US class-action litigation alleging coordinated price increases. The allegations had not been established as facts in the cited material.

Frozen-potato price-coordination litigation

McCain was named in US class-action lawsuits alleging that leading frozen-potato producers coordinated price increases beginning in 2021. The claims involved McCain, Cavendish Farms, Lamb Weston, and J.R. Simplot; the cited material presents these as allegations rather than established findings.

McCain sets regenerative agriculture target

Issue disclosure

McCain Foods announced a target for all of its potato fields to use regenerative agriculture by 2030 and said it would roll out the practices on three farms by 2025. An Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario representative said the lack of a shared definition or certification body made the term “completely ripe for greenwashing.”