McDonald’s To Boycott Chicken With Antibiotics

Posted by | March 6, 2015 07:30 | Filed under: Contributors Good News Opinion Stuart Shapiro Top Stories

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There have been plenty of reasons to criticize McDonalds over the years.  But to give credit where credit is due, they are taking a step that could have major public health benefits.

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 force chicken producers to change 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. McDonald’s policy will begin at the hatchery, where chicks are sometimes injected with antibiotics while still in the shell.

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By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.

6 responses to McDonald’s To Boycott Chicken With Antibiotics

  1. rg9rts March 6th, 2015 at 08:04

    You gotta luv it….How many years has this been common knowledge??? 5, 10???? Now here is the kicker… it is going to take the 2 TWO years to go through existing stock…it takes six weeks from egg to store for a fryer…

  2. craig7120 March 6th, 2015 at 08:35

    Bravo!
    Shut down factory farms, say no to fast food

    Stay healthy my friends

  3. Suzanne McFly March 6th, 2015 at 10:00

    Okay, now how about not chickens raised in cages.

  4. Sy Colepath March 6th, 2015 at 13:36

    There is nothing Mickey D’s can do to make me eat go near the golden arches.

    I’d rather die of starvation.

  5. bpollen March 7th, 2015 at 02:41

    They’ll still make their Nuggets outta cloacas…

  6. thinkingwomanmillstone March 31st, 2015 at 19:45

    I’ll still probably take a course of antibiotics before I go to eat at McDonalds.

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