McDonald's USA to phase out human antibiotics from chicken supply

[Ichingcarpenter]

Reuters) - McDonald's Corp's U.S. restaurants will gradually stop buying chicken raised with antibiotics vital to fighting human infections, the most aggressive step by a major food company to force chicken producers to change practices in the fight against dangerous 'superbugs.'

The world's biggest restaurant chain announced on Wednesday that within two years McDonald's USA will only buy chickens raised without antibiotics that are important to human medicine. McDonald's policy will begin at the hatchery, where chicks are sometimes injected with antibiotics while still in the shell.

"We're listening to our customers," Marion Gross, senior vice president of McDonald's North American supply chain, told Reuters. She said the company is working with its domestic chicken suppliers, including Tyson Foods Inc, to make the transition.

Veterinary use of antibiotics is legal. However, as the rate of human infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria increases, consumer advocates and public health experts have become more critical of the practice of routinely feeding antibiotics to chickens, cattle and pigs.

Scientists and public health experts say whenever an antibiotic is administered, it kills weaker bacteria and can enable the strongest to survive and multiply. Frequent use of low-dose antibiotics, a practice used by some meat producers, can intensify that effect. The risk, they say, is that so-called superbugs might develop cross-resistance to critical, medically important antibiotics.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/04/us-usa-mcdonalds-antibiotics-idUSKBN0M01L520150304


1961 - Look for the Golden Arches
1967 - McDonald's is your kind of place
1971 - You deserve a break today
1975 - We do it all for you
1975 - Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce, cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun - This was never an official company slogan
1976 - You, you're the one
1977 - You'll enjoy the difference - In UK
1979 - Nobody can do it like McDonald's can
1980 - You deserve a break today
Early 1980s - At McDonald's we've got time for you - United Kingdom
1981 - Nobody makes your day like McDonald's can
1983 - McDonald's and you
1984 - It's a good time for the great taste of McDonald's
1985 - It's Mac Tonight
1988 - Good time, great taste (that's why this is our place)
Late 1980s - There's nothing quite like a McDonald's
1990 - Food, folks and fun
1991 - McDonald's today - The entire jingle was "What you want is what you get at McDonald's today."
1992 - It's Mac time - Australia only
1992 - What you want is what you get
1993 - There's nothing quite like a McDonald's - United Kingdom
1993 - Do you believe in magic?
1994 - Make every day a McDonald's day - South Africa only
1994 - Rock On - Australia only? Featured David Essex' song "Rock On"
1995 - Have you had your break today?
1997 - My McDonald's
1997 - Did somebody say McDonald's?
1997 - Enjoy more - United Kingdom
1998 - Only McDonald's - Australia only
1990s - A visit to McDonald's makes your day - United Kingdom
1990s - McDonald's - It can happen - United States
1990s - Eddie the Echo - How ya doin'? How ya doin'? - United States
2000 - We love to see/make you smile
2000 - Put a smile on
2001 - There's a little McDonald's in everyone - Canada only
2001 - Things that make you go 'mmm' - Australia, UK and New Zealand
2002 - Every time a good time
2002 - Smile
2003 - me encanta - The Justin Timberlake slogan song
2003 - i'm lovin' it - The Justin Timberlake slogan song
2005 - Feed your inner child - An advertisement shown in Australia showed various adults in suspended animation, and having child versions coming out of them
2007 - Things that make you go 'mmm' - Breakfast us

[underpants]

1. Doesn't matter - kids think McD's is "gross"

I have a 9 year old and all her friends would never consider going to McD's other than breakfast.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I had a parent when I taught special ed

who wanted me to get her daughter tested for ADHD.
Testing involved a lot of resources, including a battery of tests by different experts, paperwork, conferences etc

I asked about her child's diet and she confessed it was a lot of Mcdonalds. I said that I was willing to get her tested but asked her to change her diet from junk food while I got the ball rolling.

She came back in a month and said the healthy new diet worked and no longer wanted her kid tested.

[underpants]

3. Yep

I have no doubt in my mind that our switching to fresh organic home cooked meals the day we found out we were pregnant is the reason my girl is as smart as she is. Considering the gene pool she climbed out of it HAS to be that.