Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A has sparked a social media backlash after announcing that it will soon allow certain antibiotics in the chickens it raises, citing supply issues.

Chick-fil-A restaurants in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico will transition “from chicken raised with No Antibiotics Ever (NAE) to chicken raised with No Antibiotics Important to Human Medicine (NAIHM), starting in the spring of 2024,” the company said in a statement posted on its website this week.

  • @thesystemisdown
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    828 months ago

    The antibiotics are used so that the chickens don’t contract infections and die from living in inhumane conditions.

    This change allows them to increase their profit margin at the cost of animal welfare.

    • @scottywh
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      08 months ago

      The article specifically said they’re only going to administer antibiotics to sick chickens and those in close proximity to sick chickens, not generally as a preventative.

      • @I_Has_A_Hat
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        -18 months ago

        “A chicken in house 7, row 15, cage B2769G72 was seen with pus buildup around its clipped beak. Destroy and incinerate that one and administer antibiotics to the rest of the chickens in row 15”

    • @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      That’s zero sum, from the chicken-life perspective.

      Die of infection or die by slaughter, their life isn’t changed by the variable in context.

      Edit I’m saying antibiotics are not for the animal’s wellbeing. They are a tool to extract profit, and not let the chickens die at the wrong moment. That’s it.

      • hypnotoad
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        208 months ago

        Lol suffering means nothing! Us humans are gonna die at age 80 anyways. Might as well suffer for my adult life instead of living a happy life, what’s the difference, right?

        My goodness, the lack of empathy for living creatures is just fucking wild. You can slaughter something AND not want it to lead a terrible life until its death, ya know.

        • @[email protected]
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          8 months ago

          Humans are clearly on a different territory from factory born animals for slaughter.

          Again, antibiotics do not change their lived experience because they get no changes in conditions in return. Antibiotics are just for human profit

          • Regna
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            38 months ago

            I’m afraid your sarcasm and irony were unclear despite the words used. But please correct that or me.

            • @[email protected]
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              08 months ago

              If you think antibiotics are to reduce animal suffering you’re deluded. It’s only to not let them die at inopportune times for the profit machine. The animals in factory farms are already experiencing suffering being belief and an early death is an escape.

              • Regna
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                I am not a proponent of routine antibiotic use in any animals (including us humans), unless it’s called for as in actually saving someone’s life.

                I was caught at one of these moments where I wasn’t sure whether it was sincerely meant or humour, and tried to be mildly sarcastic about it.

                Edit: Double checked. Thumbs up now.

      • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble
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        88 months ago

        Ah yes, nothing about your entire existence matters if the way you died wasn’t in an approved fashion.

        Shit even if you just look at it in terms of the quality of the meat a stress free well fed animal will taste so much better than one that’s been stressed out its entire life fed literal garbage.