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    McDonald's USA to phase out human antibiotics from chicken supply

    By Lisa Baertlein and P.J. Huffstutter

    LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO Wed Mar 4, 2015 12:40pm EST

    McDonald's Corp's U.S. restaurants will gradually stop buying chicken raised with antibiotics vital to fighting human infections, the most aggressive step by a major food company to change chicken producers' practices in the fight against dangerous 'superbugs.'

    The world's biggest restaurant chain announced on Wednesday that within two years, McDonald's USA will only buy chickens raised without antibiotics that are important to human medicine. The concern is that the overuse of antibiotics for poultry may diminish their effectiveness in fighting disease in humans. McDonald's policy will begin at the hatchery, where chicks are sometimes injected with antibiotics while still in the shell.

    "We're listening to our customers," Marion Gross, senior vice president of McDonald's North American supply chain, told Reuters. She said the company is working with its domestic chicken suppliers, including Tyson Foods Inc, to make the transition.

    Veterinary use of antibiotics is legal. However, as the rate of human infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria increases, consumer advocates and public health experts have become more critical of the practice of routinely feeding antibiotics to chickens, cattle and pigs.

    Scientists and public health experts say whenever an antibiotic is administered, it kills weaker bacteria and can enable the strongest to survive and multiply. Frequent use of low-dose antibiotics, a practice used by some meat producers, can intensify that effect. The risk, they say, is that so-called superbugs might develop cross-resistance to critical, medically important antibiotics.

    Superbugs are linked to an estimated 23,000 human deaths and 2 million illnesses every year in the United States, and up to $20 billion in direct healthcare costs, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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    When did McDonald's start using chicken in its "chicken" products? I heard its McNuggets can be heated up and used to repair damaged fiberlgass sports car bodies.
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    ... meanwhile millions of people plan of phasing out McDonalds entirely out of their diets!
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    Quote Originally Posted by DamianTV View Post
    ... meanwhile millions of people plan of phasing out McDonalds entirely out of their diets!
    let's hope so.
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    Haven't eaten there in years. Their food makes me ill.

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    mickey d's best feature.. mostly accessible cleanish bathrooms while on road trips
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    Quote Originally Posted by opal View Post
    mickey d's best feature.. mostly accessible cleanish bathrooms while on road trips
    Yep , park on that side , in and out in no time .

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    Some of the McDonalds bathrooms I have seen really, really, suck.

    And I see still see cars lined up 10 deep during lunch. So-called "education" about eating healthy is a joke, yet people like Obama spend for this campaing like there is no tomorrow. Then, that piece of $#@! passes his law to make me pay for lazy Americans who patronize this dump.



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    Crap, I always used to go to mcdonalds for the cheap antibiotics.. Where do I go now ? /s
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    huge misdirect.. they still process the chicken in pretty much the most disgusting way possible.. $#@! off mcdonalds.. you can put bacon on it or whatever the $#@! you want but its still mcdonalds and therefore its still poison and not really food at all. food nourishes, it isnt something that your body has to work overtime to detox and expel.


    and FYI I commute to school in a town with a tyson chicken factory and oftentimes the air in the whole city smells absolutely horrible due to the air scrubbers at the tyson factory failing regularly.. why does it smell so horrible? what are they doing that they need 24/7 industrial air scrubbers to hide the smell of their "processing"
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    To put it in a positive manner; by people voting with their pocketbooks McDonald's is forced to make changes that people have been speaking out against. This is one hurdle to bring awareness to people, but you're right Kotin, it doesn't mean the chicken, after slaughtered, aren't being processed with anti-foaming agents and other garbage that they have always used.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlybee View Post
    Haven't eaten there in years. Their food makes me ill.
    Always made me fart a lot.

    My sons said they had the McFarts.

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    Oh, that was chicken?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kotin View Post
    and FYI I commute to school in a town with a tyson chicken factory and oftentimes the air in the whole city smells absolutely horrible due to the air scrubbers at the tyson factory failing regularly.. why does it smell so horrible? what are they doing that they need 24/7 industrial air scrubbers to hide the smell of their "processing"
    Ever gutted and cleaned chickens? (or any game birds for that matter)

    It can be a filthy, stinking mess.



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