McDonald's is proud to be one of the biggest purchasers of British beef.

Wherever McDonald's goes, it buys locally - which here means 60% from the UK and 40% from Ireland.

McDonald's patties, both the standard beef and the breakfast sausage kind, are made for the UK and Ireland by Esca Food Solutions of Scunthorpe.

McDonald's sources beef from more than 16,000 British and Irish farms and only uses whole cuts of forequater and flank in its burgers.

The beef for their hamburgers is 100% beef bought from farms accredited by nationally recognised farm assurance schemes.

McDonald’s French Fries are all sourced from McCains of Scarborough.

All pork used in their breakfast sausage and the bacon used within the breakfast menu and main menu, is sourced from British pigs on British farms.

McDonald's is the only large-scale restaurant chain (and one of the few retailers) to use exclusively free range eggs on its menu. They use UK free-range eggs in their breakfast menu which are produced to the Lion Quality Mark code of practice. Eggs come from over 100 UK producers, 80% of which are independent farmers or small family farms.

All the milk for Shakes and McFlurries is sourced from farms in the British Isles. Likewise, all bottled milk and milk used in its coffees and teas is semi-skimmed organic milk from the British Isles.