Supply Shortage Forcing Chik-Fil-A To Change To Chickens w/ Anibiotics (fast food, states)
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Chick-fil-A is updating its commitment to customers about the quality and standards of its staple ingredient -- chicken.
The fast food chain announced on its website that while "serving quality food has always been our priority," effective this spring, the restaurant will "shift from No Antibiotics Ever (NAE) to No Antibiotics Important To Human Medicine (NAIHM)."
The key distinction between NAE and NAIHM, as outlined by Chick-fil-A, is that the first "means no antibiotics of any kind were used in raising the animal," while "NAIHM restricts the use of those antibiotics that are important to human medicine and commonly used to treat people, and allows use of animal antibiotics only if the animal and those around it were to become sick."
What's causing the supply shortages?
With increasing outbreaks at U.S. chicken farms of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), commonly referred to as bird flu, chicken supplies have dwindled prompting an uptick in prices.
That virus has been brutal over the years not just to chicken and egg farms but to wildlife.
Farms go to great lengths to keep disease out of their facilities, one challege is outside birds like pidgeons etc. that can squeeze through small openings or fly in through a doorway etc.
Its market manipulation aimed at driving up prices by reducing supply( faked avian flu) and destruction and shutting down of
production and processing facilities.
Chick-fil-A is updating its commitment to customers about the quality and standards of its staple ingredient -- chicken.
The fast food chain announced on its website that while "serving quality food has always been our priority," effective this spring, the restaurant will "shift from No Antibiotics Ever (NAE) to No Antibiotics Important To Human Medicine (NAIHM)."
The key distinction between NAE and NAIHM, as outlined by Chick-fil-A, is that the first "means no antibiotics of any kind were used in raising the animal," while "NAIHM restricts the use of those antibiotics that are important to human medicine and commonly used to treat people, and allows use of animal antibiotics only if the animal and those around it were to become sick."
What's causing the supply shortages?
With increasing outbreaks at U.S. chicken farms of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), commonly referred to as bird flu, chicken supplies have dwindled prompting an uptick in prices.
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