Finally Healthier Chickens Are Easier to Get at the Grocery Store

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Four of America's 10 largest chicken producers are ceasing to feed chickens low doses of antibiotics.

The practice made the chickens grow faster and stay healthy, but health groups have for years argued that doing so was causing a public health crisis.

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Infections


Low levels of antibiotics in animal feed have been linked to antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections in humans. Groups such as the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association have been campaigning to stop the practice for years.

40 Percent of U.S. Chickens

Now, Tyson Foods, Gold Kist, Perdue Farms and Foster Farms have all stopped using antibiotics for this purpose. Combined, the four companies produce almost 40 percent of the chickens raised for eating in the United States.

Not Permitted by McDonald's

Europe has already banned the technique, and McDonald's stopped using chickens grown under the regimen a month ago. Such moves by large-scale purchasers of chicken have likely been a major factor in ending the practice.
http://www.mercola.com/2006/feb/9/f...ns_are_easier_to_get_at_the_grocery_store.htm
 
That is good news... I am still waiting to see if the Bird Flu hits America first though because I don't want to catch the Bird Flu so I stopped eating chicken for a while. I eat steak, hamburgers things like that for the time being.
 
Heath said:
That is good news... I am still waiting to see if the Bird Flu hits America first though because I don't want to catch the Bird Flu so I stopped eating chicken for a while. I eat steak, hamburgers things like that for the time being.
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and vension...
 
Heath said:
That is good news... I am still waiting to see if the Bird Flu hits America first though because I don't want to catch the Bird Flu so I stopped eating chicken for a while. I eat steak, hamburgers things like that for the time being.
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just a point of intrest the bird flu cant be cought buy eating chicken it's working wioth the live birds, ie: you have to work on or near a pultry farm or be a family member of a putry farm worker by the time chicken get to you it's fine just cook it and chow down .
 
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