{"id":2470,"date":"2024-03-27T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/chick-fil-a-announces-shift-from-no-antibiotics-in-chicken-pledge\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:30:36","slug":"chick-fil-a-announces-shift-from-no-antibiotics-in-chicken-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/chick-fil-a-announces-shift-from-no-antibiotics-in-chicken-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Chick-fil-A announces shift from \u2018no antibiotics\u2019 in chicken pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Chick-fil-A says it will no longer adhere to its pledge of serving antibiotic-free chicken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a statement released Monday, the fast-food company said that starting this spring it would serve chicken that was free only of antibiotics \u2018important to human medicine,\u2019 or those commonly used to treat people.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">It said its poultry going forward may have been raised with animal antibiotics, though \u2018only if the animal and those around it were to become sick.\u2019 The chicken will continue to be free of artificial preservatives, steroids and added hormones, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Chick-fil-A first announced its no-antibiotics pledge in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But amid an avian-flu outbreak that devastated poultry supplies nationwide, chicken farmers who\u2019d previously sought to avoid antibiotics have been forced to turn to them. Last July, food processing giant Tyson announced it was ending its \u2018no antibiotics ever\u2019 pledge. Poultry producer Perdue Farms still has its pledge in place, while rival Pilgrim\u2019s Pride says it uses some. <\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">While world health officials have long raised concerns about the potential of any antibiotics in food to degrade the human body\u2019s immunity to disease treatments, the Food and Drug Administration has said it is more concerned about the use of antibiotics commonly prescribed to humans than ones used to treat animal illnesses. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chick-fil-A says it will no longer adhere to its pledge of serving antibiotic-free chicken. In a statement released Monday, the fast-food company said that starting this spring it would serve chicken that was free only of antibiotics \u2018important to human medicine,\u2019 or those commonly used to treat people. It said its poultry going forward may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}