We’ve speculated for months that a veggie burger could be imminent for Tyson’s major customer McDonald’s menu, and today McDonald’s finally announced that it will be trialing a plant-based Beyond Meat burger in select Canada locations. This progress comes after mounting pressure on McDonald’s to catch up with competitors, including hundreds of your comments! TAKE ACTION: Urge McDonald’s to take the next step and bring a vegan burger to the US!

Though McDonald’s has previously debuted vegan options in markets like Germany and the UK, the chain’s progress has been eclipsed by U.S. fast-food restaurants like Burger King, which began offering the Impossible Whopper nationwide this summer. Beyond Meat has also been making its way onto menus, including the debut of a vegetarian breakfast sandwich at Dunkin’. 

The new McDonald’s burger, called the P.L.T. (plant, lettuce, and tomato), will be available for 12 weeks in 28 restaurants in Southwestern Ontario, CNBC reports. Vegans should request the burger without cheese and mayo.

This rise in vegan eating is in part due to a growing awareness of the extreme suffering on cruel factory farms, where animals are crammed by the thousands in filthy conditions for their entire short lives before a violent slaughter. Compassion Over Killing is continuing to shine a light on the truth of the meat industry with powerful investigations and working to make compassionate vegan options more accessible than ever. Stateside, we continue to pressure McDonald’s to offer a nationwide vegan option, and to address egregious abuses in its chicken supply line.

The best way to get McDonald’s to ditch cruelty and pivot towards plant-based options? Tell them we want it. It’s time for us to let the fast-food giant know that we want it to stop dishing out cruel animal products and offer a vegan burger: Take action today with a quick tweet!