Citing diminishing chicken supply, Chick-fil-A will back off its pledge never to serve chicken that was fed antibiotics, and instead it will embrace a looser industry standard: “no antibiotics important to human medicine.” Chick-fil-A first announced that it would abandon antibiotics in 2014.
The change comes after Tyson, America’s biggest poultry company, last summer ended its eight-year-pledge to keep antibiotics out of its chicken.
That particular disease is not treatable with antibiotics, but other diseases that can kill chickens do respond to antibiotics.
In addition to chickens’ health, antibiotics are particularly important to promote poultry growth — particularly for items like large broiler chickens.
It noted in that 2007 publication that “an appropriate balance should be struck between animal health needs and human health considerations – human health being, however, paramount compared to animal health.”
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New York CNN —, ”, Tyson, Perdue
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New, New York CNN, USDA, World Health Organization, WHO
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New York