Chick-fil-A is dropping its policy of serving only chickens that had no antibiotics in their feed. It will now serve chicken treated with animal antibiotics. The reason is because it is difficult to find chickens in the U.S. that are antibiotic-free.
Feeding antibiotics to chickens helps them grow faster. It also means that people who eat chickens treated with antibiotics might not respond to the antibiotics used to to treat bacterial infections.
Readers may be pleased to note that none of my 15 chickens are fed mash with antibiotics, although as they roam around they do sometimes eat bugs and worms.
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