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Food campaigners’ latest beef with old McDonald’s farm: its foreign chicken

The cattle crowded into the barn near Bishopton stared intently at the group of visiting dignitaries, blissfully unaware of their fate.

“These animals are very close to being burgers,” said the farmer, John Ritchie, with a smile.

He was helping the world’s most famous fast food chain, McDonald’s, with its public relations.