Burger King owner vows to end use of antibiotics in chicken
7 years, 9 months ago

Burger King owner vows to end use of antibiotics in chicken

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The parent of Burger King and Canadian fast food chain Tim Hortons on Thursday vowed to cut the use of antibiotics in its chicken supply, joining other major fast-food chain operators in the battle against the rise of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs. Restaurant Brands said it intends to switch its Burger King and Tim Hortons chains in the US and Canada to chicken raised without the use of antibiotics important to human medicine by the end of 2018. The lawsuit alleged that government tests of finished Sanderson products found residues of drugs such as ketamine, an animal aesthetic dubbed "Special K" by recreational drug users, and human antibiotics including chloramphenicol, which is not approved for use in animals raised to become food. Mike Cockrell, Sanderson's chief financial officer, said the company does not use the antibiotics or other drugs and chemicals mentioned in the lawsuit and that it will launch a "vigorous" defence.

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Why did Chick-fil-A decide to start using antibiotics in chicken? Company overturns 2014 commitment
1 year ago

Why did Chick-fil-A decide to start using antibiotics in chicken? Company overturns 2014 commitment

Hindustan Times  

Chick-fil-A is set to allow some antibiotics in its chicken beginning this spring. Why did Chick-fil-A decide to start using antibiotics in its chicken? "To maintain supply of the high-quality chicken you expect from us, Chick-fil-A will shift from No Antibiotics Ever to No Antibiotics Important To Human Medicine starting in the Spring of 2024," an update on the website …

New Report Grades Chain Restaurants On Their Use Of Antibiotics In Meat
7 years, 6 months ago

New Report Grades Chain Restaurants On Their Use Of Antibiotics In Meat

Huff Post  

Consumers Union, the policy and action division of Consumer Reports, has put out its third report rating national chain restaurants on their use of antibiotics in meat. The overuse of antibiotics increases levels of drug-resistant bacteria, which according to the United Nations “will make providing high-quality universal healthcare coverage more difficult if not impossible.” The past couple of years has …

McDonald's to phase out critically important antibiotics in chickens to help fight superbugs
7 years, 7 months ago

McDonald's to phase out critically important antibiotics in chickens to help fight superbugs

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy McDonald's on Wednesday said that …

Is Burger King’s antibiotic policy less than meets the eye?
8 years, 2 months ago

Is Burger King’s antibiotic policy less than meets the eye?

LA Times  

Restaurant Brands International has pledged to limit the use of antibiotics in the chicken it buys for its Burger King and Tim Hortons restaurants. “This is a small step that is much less meaningful for humankind than Burger King would have you believe,” said Dr. David Wallinga, the council’s senior health officer. “The fast-food industry is moving away from routine …

Burger King to cut use of antibiotics in its chicken as part of superbug fight
8 years, 3 months ago

Burger King to cut use of antibiotics in its chicken as part of superbug fight

The Independent  

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Despite Pledges To Cut Back, Farms Are Still Using Antibiotics
8 years, 3 months ago

Despite Pledges To Cut Back, Farms Are Still Using Antibiotics

NPR  

Despite Pledges To Cut Back, Farms Are Still Using Antibiotics Enlarge this image toggle caption Don Ryan/AP Don Ryan/AP It's a continuing paradox of the meat industry. According to the latest figures, released this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, antibiotic sales for use on farm animals increased by 1 percent in 2015, compared to the previous year. …

Fast-food chain urged to give up antibiotics globally[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
8 years, 7 months ago

Fast-food chain urged to give up antibiotics globally[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain said on Monday that meat suppliers for its restaurants in China must strictly follow China's law and regulations on the use of antibiotics in beef cattle and poultry. ShareAction, a charity based in the United Kingdom, said last week that it had launched an online campaign asking people to email McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook telling him …

Fast-food chain urged to give up antibiotics globally[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
8 years, 7 months ago

Fast-food chain urged to give up antibiotics globally[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain said on Monday that meat suppliers for its restaurants in China must strictly follow China's law and regulations on the use of antibiotics in beef cattle and poultry. ShareAction, a charity based in the United Kingdom, said last week that it had launched an online campaign asking people to email McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook telling him …

McDonald’s urged to stop serving meat and milk from animals treated with antibiotics
8 years, 7 months ago

McDonald’s urged to stop serving meat and milk from animals treated with antibiotics

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A new online campaign has …

350,000 sign petition against KFC's use of antibiotics as superbug fears mount
8 years, 7 months ago

350,000 sign petition against KFC's use of antibiotics as superbug fears mount

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A 350,000 signature petition delivered to KFC urged it …

McDonald's Now Serving Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics — Mostly
8 years, 7 months ago

McDonald's Now Serving Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics — Mostly

NPR  

McDonald's Now Serving Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics — Mostly Enlarge this image toggle caption Mark Duncan/AP Mark Duncan/AP McDonald's is no longer serving chicken raised on antibiotics that are important to human medicine. Sponsor Message Chicken served at McDonald's won't necessarily be raised completely without antibiotics. While Brook applauds McDonald's for implementing its new policy, she calls on the company …

McDonald’s testing ‘cleaner’ Chicken McNuggets in the US
8 years, 11 months ago

McDonald’s testing ‘cleaner’ Chicken McNuggets in the US

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy McDonald’s has begun testing a …

Subway Is Transitioning To Antibiotic-Free Meat
9 years, 5 months ago

Subway Is Transitioning To Antibiotic-Free Meat

Huff Post  

Bloomberg via Getty Images NEW YORK — Subway said Tuesday that it plans to switch to meat raised without antibiotics over the next several years. The sandwich chain had said this summer that it would start switching to chicken raised without antibiotics important to human medicine by next year. The announcement comes as multiple groups including Natural Resources Defense Council, …

Subway Joins The Fast-Food, Antibiotic-Free Meat Club
9 years, 5 months ago

Subway Joins The Fast-Food, Antibiotic-Free Meat Club

NPR  

Subway Joins The Fast-Food, Antibiotic-Free Meat Club Enlarge this image toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Scott Olson/Getty Images The parade of fast-food companies promising to sell meat from animals that never received antibiotics just got significantly longer. Subway, the ubiquitous sandwich chain, is following the lead of Chipotle, Panera, Chick-fil-A and McDonalds, with its promise Tuesday that its meat suppliers …

Pulling Farm Antibiotics Won't Fix All Our Superbug Woes
9 years, 10 months ago

Pulling Farm Antibiotics Won't Fix All Our Superbug Woes

Wired  

Earlier this week, Tyson, killer of about 2 billion chickens every year, announced that it would be phasing out the use of human antibiotics in that poultry by 2017. But their nominal goal---to quell the rising tide of drug-resistant human pathogens that cause an estimated 2 million infections and 23,000 annual deaths in the US each year---isn't as simple as …

America's biggest poultry producer pledges to stop using human antibiotics
9 years, 11 months ago

America's biggest poultry producer pledges to stop using human antibiotics

Salon  

Tyson Foods, the nation's largest poultry supplier, is going antibiotic-free. Tyson's commitment, she writes in a blog post, means that a third of the nation's poultry producers are now on their way to eliminating the routine use of medically important antibiotics, if they haven't already. "We're confident our meat and poultry products are safe, but want to do our part …

While the superbug crisis grows, the meat industry is using more human antibiotics than ever
9 years, 11 months ago

While the superbug crisis grows, the meat industry is using more human antibiotics than ever

Salon  

The meat industry is buying up more and more medically important antibiotics, threatening human health in its quest to ramp up the factory farm model to meet the demand for pork, chicken and beef. New FDA data shows that sales of human antibiotics for use in livestock jumped 20 percent between 2009 and 2013, in keeping with past trends. It's …

McDonald’s to use chicken without human antibiotics
10 years ago

McDonald’s to use chicken without human antibiotics

Live Mint  

New York: McDonald’s says it plans to start using chicken raised without antibiotics important to human medicine and milk from cows that are not treated with the artificial growth hormone rbST. “Our customers want food that they feel great about eating — all the way from the farm to the restaurant — and these moves take a step toward better …

McDonald's takes on the superbugs: Company to stop buying chicken raised with human antibiotics
10 years ago

McDonald's takes on the superbugs: Company to stop buying chicken raised with human antibiotics

Salon  

McDonald's just did what the U.S. government won't. In a bombshell announcement Wednesday morning, the fast food giant said that it plans to stop buying chicken raised with antibiotics vital to human medicine, giving producers two years to move away from the dangerous practice. But taking a concrete step to eliminate the use of human antibiotics in that chicken goes …

McDonald's Says It Won't Be Serving Chicken Raised On Antibiotics
10 years ago

McDonald's Says It Won't Be Serving Chicken Raised On Antibiotics

NPR  

McDonald's Says It Won't Be Serving Chicken Raised On Antibiotics Enlarge this image toggle caption Mark Duncan/AP Mark Duncan/AP Fast food giant McDonald's announced Wednesday it will begin sourcing chickens raised without antibiotics. As industry analyst Joe Kolano told The Salt in February 2014: "While antibiotic-free chicken is still a relatively small fraction of the market — accounting for about …

What McDonald's still isn't telling you about its chicken nuggets
10 years, 3 months ago

What McDonald's still isn't telling you about its chicken nuggets

Salon  

McDonald's is out with its latest myth-busting video, this time taking on the legendary McNugget. White meat chicken, to be exact: the video emphasizes, over and over, that processing plants don't just dump entire chickens into their grinders, and that there's no pink slime to be found. "I've seen how they make the chicken nuggets and exactly what goes into …

The meat industry's out-of-control antibiotic abuse just keeps getting worse
10 years, 5 months ago

The meat industry's out-of-control antibiotic abuse just keeps getting worse

Salon  

Remember how the federal government decided to finally take on the major threat that antibiotic resistance poses to human health, yet somehow failed to address the meat and poultry industries' routine overuse of antibiotics -- despite acknowledging that said overuse is definitely contributing to the problem? "Although knowledge in this area is still incomplete," the President’s Council of Advisors on …

Americans Want Antibiotic-Free Chicken, And The Industry Is Listening
11 years, 1 month ago

Americans Want Antibiotic-Free Chicken, And The Industry Is Listening

NPR  

Americans Want Antibiotic-Free Chicken, And The Industry Is Listening Enlarge this image toggle caption iStockphoto iStockphoto In an age when consumers want transparency in how their food is produced, meat producers are under the microscope. "The Chick-fil-A move does signal an important market change in responding to what consumers have been demanding for some time — that we stop feeding …

FDA's pitiful plea to Big Pharma: Cut back on antibiotics in meat, please
11 years, 3 months ago

FDA's pitiful plea to Big Pharma: Cut back on antibiotics in meat, please

Salon  

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will be moving forward with a plan to curb the overuse of antibiotics in factory farming, which would protect us all from increasingly virulent strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, also known as superbugs. “FDA’s policy is an early holiday gift to industry,” says Avinash Kar, a staff attorney for the Natural …

Antibiotic-Free Meat Business Is Booming, Thanks To Chipotle
12 years, 9 months ago

Antibiotic-Free Meat Business Is Booming, Thanks To Chipotle

NPR  

Antibiotic-Free Meat Business Is Booming, Thanks To Chipotle Enlarge this image toggle caption Sarah Willis/courtesy Niman Ranch Sarah Willis/courtesy Niman Ranch It's no longer just foodies at farm markets or Whole Foods buying antibiotic-free, pasture-raised meats. Sponsor Message The company's transition to antibiotic-free meat began more than a decade ago when Chipotle realized its pork wasn't selling very well. He …

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