silverbird1100 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Pretty interesting. Never knew "no antibiotics" actually means “no antibiotics important to human medicine,” Chick-Fil-A backtracks from its no-antibiotics-in-chicken pledge, blames projected supply shortages - The Washington Post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampNut Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Factory farmed birds may be one of the shittiest things we can eat. And we might create the next pandemic this way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon haney Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 11 minutes ago, SwampNut said: Factory farmed birds may be one of the shittiest things we can eat. And we might create the next pandemic this way. Many foreseeable and unforeseeable ways to do that. I think the below pic shows the most likely way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverbird1100 Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 I sure would like to know the amount of antibiotics ingested per breast of chicken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhawkxx Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 1 hour ago, silverbird1100 said: Pretty interesting. Never knew "no antibiotics" actually means “no antibiotics important to human medicine,” Chick-Fil-A backtracks from its no-antibiotics-in-chicken pledge, blames projected supply shortages - The Washington Post What are you using to get past the pay wall? 12ft ladder isn't working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverbird1100 Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 2 minutes ago, blackhawkxx said: What are you using to get past the pay wall? 12ft ladder isn't working. ATLANTA — The fast-food chain Chick-Fil-A backtracked from its decade-old “no antibiotics ever” pledge intended to help prevent human antibiotic resistance linked to the rampant use of the drugs in livestock production. Instead, the company said in a statement that it will embrace a standard known as “no antibiotics important to human medicine,” often abbreviated as NAIHM, which entails the avoidance of medications commonly used to treat people and limits the use of animal antibiotics to cases of actual animal illness. Livestock producers have long used antibiotics to boost rapid weight gain in animals such as chickens, pigs, cows and sheep, improving the profitability of their businesses. Over the past decade, however, many nations, including the United States, have begun to restrict the practice as evidence mounted that it was contributing to drug resistance and reducing the effectiveness of antibiotics against disease in humans. Chick-Fil-A said it will begin shifting to the new policy in the spring of 2024. A company spokesman added that the move reflects company concerns about its ability to acquire sufficient supplies of antibiotic-free chicken. One of the poultry industry’s largest companies, Tyson Foods, said last year that it was reintroducing some antibiotics to its chicken production and removing its “No Antibiotics Ever” package labeling. It began to eliminate antibiotics from some of its poultry production in 2015. In a May 2023 video featured on the Tyson Foods YouTube channel, Tyson’s senior director of animal welfare, Karen Christensen, described the shift as “based on scientific research and industry learnings.” She noted that Tyson planned to begin using antibiotics known as ionophores, which don’t play a role in human medicine, to “improve the overall health and welfare of the birds in our care.” Ionophores have long been used to promote growth in livestock. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampNut Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 https://www.newrootsinstitute.org/articles/factory-farming-pandemics https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/18/factory-farms-of-disease-how-industrial-chicken-production-is-breeding-the-next-pandemic “We now have billions of feathered and curly tailed test tubes for viruses to incubate and mutate within. Billions more spins at pandemic roulette…” “Maybe COVID-19 is the dry run we needed, the fire drill, to wake us up out of our complacency to reform the food system before its too late.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrick Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 2 hours ago, SwampNut said: Factory farmed birds may be one of the shittiest things we can eat. And we might create the next pandemic this way. I've had the, um, "opportunity" to, uh, "tour" several of them, in the course of, mmmm, "interacting" with employees that work at that sort of place. Observations: 1. Disgusting 2. Heartbreaking Even more disgusting than mushroom farms, which I, uh, "visited" under the same circumstances. Funny thing, mushroom farms are where all the waste from factory chicken houses and egg farms goes - the poop, the goo that comes out of the machine that they throw the baby male chicks into, the tons of broken eggs, the dead birds they shovel up off the floor and literally load into a dumpster with a front end loader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhawkxx Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 As I eat either chicken or turkey every day for decades, maybe all those antibiotics is the reason we never got the China flu. 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverbird1100 Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 1 hour ago, blackhawkxx said: As I eat either chicken or turkey every day for decades, maybe all those antibiotics is the reason we never got the China flu. 😉 Same here. Everyone QUICK! Start eating farmed chicken it’s the new vaccine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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