Because the conditions are so filthy and crowded at factory farms, the cows are routinely given antibiotics, which contribute to
human antibiotic resistance.
This month, Steve Easterbrook became CEO and announced McDonald's would phase out chicken raised
with human antibiotics in its U.S. unit.
Last year, McDonald's pressured its chicken supplier Tyson Foods to stop
using human antibiotics in U.S. chicken production by March 2017.
Agricultural usage accounts for about 80 percent of all antibiotic use in the US, so it's a MAJOR source
of human antibiotic consumption
In fact, agricultural usage accounts for about 80 percent of all antibiotic use in the US, 2 so it's a MAJOR source of
human antibiotic consumption.
Tyson Foods (TSN), for example, last week announced it would
ban human antibiotics in its poultry products.
McDonald's (mcd) on Wednesday said that it would begin curbing the use of
important human antibiotics in its global chicken supply in 2018, as the fast - food giant joins a broad effort to battle dangerous superbugs.
Establishing baseline levels of antibiotic resistance will allow scientists to differentiate resistance caused
by human antibiotic use from resistance that occurs naturally.
The announcements by Taco Bell and Pizza Hut come just two months after McDonald's revealed that it would stop using chicken and milk treated with
human antibiotics.
An incorrect number appeared in a March 5 story about McDonald's restricting chicken treated with
human antibiotics.
«The committee couldn't conclude that there would not be transmission from animal to
human antibiotics.»
McDonald's pressured its chicken supplier Tyson Foods to stop using
human antibiotics (but not all antibiotics) in U.S. chicken production by March 2017.
Visit the vet to get some suitable antibiotics; remember that
human antibiotics may be harmful for the dog.