( ) -q-24- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “of animal illness.” The fast-food chain Chick-Fil-A has backtracked from its decade-old “no antibiotics ever” pledge. [CutID: <Cuts> CHICK-FIL-A-ANTIBIOTICS-house-q-MONam.mp3 Time: 24s Title: CHICK-FIL-A-ANTIBIOTICS-house-q-MONam Out-cue: of animal illness] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Livestock producers have long used antibiotics to boost rapid weight gain in animals such as chickens, […]
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Chick-Fil-A changes its no-antibiotics-in-chicken pledge
( ) -q-24- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “of animal illness.”
The fast-food chain Chick-Fil-A has backtracked from its decade-old “no antibiotics ever” pledge.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Livestock producers have long used antibiotics to boost rapid weight gain in animals such as chickens, pigs, cows and sheep, although many nations, including the United States, have begun to restrict the practice.
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VERBATIM: The pledge was intended to help prevent human antibiotic resistance linked to the rampant use of the drugs in livestock production. Instead, the company says it will embrace a standard known as “no antibiotics important to human medicine.” The new pledge entails avoidance of such medicines commonly used to treat people and limits the use of animal antibiotics to cases of animal illness.