Tyson will no longer sell fresh chicken raised with antibiotics

South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | June 20, 2007 | LAUREN SHEPHERD

[rawhide]

Good move, as long as the price is right.

[PAR35]

But will they use Chinese feed for the birds?

[keats5]

I may be sorry I asked, but why did they need to use antibiotics in the first place?

[indcons]

When are they going to stop selling food processed by their illegal employee base?

[mom4kittys]

[traditional1]

Succumbing to the wishes of the bulk of their non-citizen workforce, which has complained about the chicken enchiladas, Tyson has decided to change its production methods.

[maine-iac7]

no artificial ingredients

there's still a lot of unsavory stuff that they still call "natural" - I'll want ALL ingredients that aren't just chicken listed...

[org.whodat]

Must be causing the illegals to have a rash.

[stubernx98]

This is not a good thing. Now we get to eat diseased chickens. They will almost be as bad as free range chickens. Another company caves to political correctness.

[tiki]

Because just like humans, animals get sick too. What has happened since the advent of cheap antibiotics is that most animals are given antibiotics prophylactically especially because they live in confinement and any disease can spread like wildfire. There is a lower death rate and they grow faster and are more healthy. Antibiotics are one of the reasons that meat is cheap and plentiful.

It could work or it could backfire and end up costing a lot more than they think considering how many chicken farms are under contract to Tyson.

[org.whodat]

I may be sorry I asked, but why did they need to use antibiotics in the first place?

First off I don't believe they are telling the truth! It probably depend on your definition of is.

But you use antibiotics to keep the thing from getting sick. The same reason you take them.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Money grab,,,take something out then charge more...

[JoeSixPack1]

Just a few less needles the birds get while hanging on the conveyor line.

An if its a KFC run,,, well.. not all of those secret spices are in the coating. :-)

[ndt]

"But you use antibiotics to keep the thing from getting sick. The same reason you take them."

As a general rule, you should not be taking prophylactic antibiotics.

[tiki]

You’re right. Political correctness will accomplish what the environmentalists want, eventual starvation and fewer people ruining the planet. It will begin with people paying a whole lot more for food and it will end with a shortage of food. It may not happen this genaration but it will happen.

[neverdem]

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Food Before Fuel

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[television is just wrong]

and they stop hiring illegal alien help.

[org.whodat]

As a general rule, you should not be taking prophylactic antibiotics.

As a general rule, I did not say that. People take antibiotics as a treatment. That is what you give the stuff to animals for as a treatment, but sometimes it is used as a preventive.

The common product is Agrimycin and terramycin, but there are others.