Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A has sparked a social media backlash after announcing that it will soon allow certain antibiotics in the chickens it raises, citing supply issues.
Chick-fil-A restaurants in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico will transition “from chicken raised with No Antibiotics Ever (NAE) to chicken raised with No Antibiotics Important to Human Medicine (NAIHM), starting in the spring of 2024,” the company said in a statement posted on its website this week.
Fuck ChikFila and thier bigot sponsors.
“In a statement to Reuters, Chick-fil-A said the policy change was due to challenges it foresees finding chicken supplies that “meets our rigid standards.””
So, clearly, the solution is “lower your standards”? 🤔
If the other choice is make less money then it’s obvious what corporations will do
taking care of their chickens is not lowering their standards, its raising them
I think that’s the trick though, they aren’t “their” chickens. They’re buying them from 3rd party vendors.
If they wanted to be serious about quality, they’d set their own standards and raise their own chickens.
That god they don’t actually have to do that to have chicken standards.
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I mean, lowering standards is a pretty common solution. A friend of mine who was a firefighter said they wanted more female firefighters - so they lowered test standards so they were able to pass.
Not sure if you’re a sexist asshole or referring to tests that were originally made to be sexist/racist to only prefer a specific type of person, like the Jim Crow Literary tests that were purposely difficult and confusing to stop black folks from voting.
Evaluations for firefighters have physical requirements. It is a physical job, men and women do tend to have different biological characteristics.
They were test to assure safety of human life, and women couldn’t pass them. So they lowered them. The biggest one was being able to carry a person of a specific mass out of an area within a specific amount of time, with all your gear on, in a smoke filled room. Few men were able to pass it, and almost no women. So they lowered the amount of weight and upped the time limit. Sometimes even just flubbed the women passing so they could reach diversity goals.
People will die because of it, but hey…women firefighters! WOO HOO!
Now the thing that’s really sexist, is denying sexual dimorphism exists within the human species and that men --in general-- can be better suited among the general populace for specific tasks when it comes to simple brute strength.
That’s the thing that’s really sexist, huh?
This is completely off topic, but here’s some facts for you, from someone who works at a fire department.
Those physical fitness tests were pretty arbitrary. They don’t have much basis in the job itself.
At most departments, physical fitness tests are for the application only, and a LARGE percentage of current firefighters couldn’t pass them just a few years later.
There are many, many jobs a firefighter does, and most of them do not require massive amounts of physical strength.
Firefighters deal with the public, and often in a medical capacity far more often than an extinguishing fire capacity. Having female paramedics available to run medical calls is very important for the community. This is the same for having a mix of employees from all socioeconomic groups that are in the area.
There are a LOT of fire departments that are switching to a more fair entrance criteria, and that is making the job better, not worse.I know you’ve just kind of had a knee jerk reaction here, but I don’t think women should be restricted from that field ya know…I’m perfectly okay with it.
Is it still going to be soggy and disgusting?
That’s the secret ingredient: homophobia
I’ve only eaten there a few times, but I don’t remember it being soggy.
Have you…ever eaten at chick fil a?
Yes. The chicken is soggy and gross.
So, no.
Entirely depends on when you go. At peak hours they’re frying chicken and packing sandwiches in advance, which means the unbreathable pouch they wrap and close off the sandwiches in cause the chicken to get VERY soggy if they aren’t sold quickly.
That’s fair. They always go fast here, but if they overestimated demand one day and some sandos sat in the pouch for a while I could see them getting soggy.
So you were wrong.
What are you, 8? Go suck a soggy sandwich
I said yes. I’m not sure what is so hard to understand. The food there is horrible. It OK if you think its not that bad.
I mean, I don’t believe you. Their chicken is known to be good. Not just my opinion. Saying otherwise puts you in the small minority, and I think you’re only saying it because you hate their politics.
No evidence hits quite as hard as ‘people are saying it’ 🙄 totally disproves the soggy chicken comments people are also saying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You can’t debate someone into liking a shitty product
I’m not debating, I’m calling them a liar
I am also laughing at this weird gen Z trend of having to pretend that if a company’s practices are horrible, their product must be horrible. “Starbucks coffee sucks” lol my dude, if you don’t like caramel flavored ice cream with whipped cream on top with a shot of espresso blended in, that is a you problem.
Or like every time there’s a vegan thread “yeah burgers are gross anyway” uh huh sure.
I think you’re all lying in an attempt to fit in.
Fuck chikfila, and fuck you if you spend your money there. Fucking bigots
Ironically enough, they hire shit tons of LGTBQ+ people in my area and the LGBTQ+ crowd fucking stans them.
According to the Good Place if you eat their sandwich it means you hate gay people.
if you’ve bought anything there then you are contributing directly to people who fund and support the anti-lgbtq+ movement so yes, you cannot be a customer there and also support these social movements
While I agree with the stance that Chick-fil-a should be boycotted, I think declaring those who dont incapable of supporting lgbtq+ social movements only hurts said movements. Its not a zero sum game, and alienating potential allies is a losing strategy.
Plus, at least as an American, its damn near impossible to survive without spending money on products that caused harm somewhere along the line. Dont be so quick to throw stones, all our hands are soaked with blood, most of us are just too busy to notice.
Hey now, the chicken don’t taste homophobic.
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Go to a different chicken place if you don’t like their changes. Or you know, make your own chicken at home.
I want a chikin sandwich, some waffle fries and don’t forget the Dr pepper bitch
Maybe they could just go away
Just tell your customers you upped the Jesus in every sandwich and they’ll overlook everything else.
Making sure the chickens stay healthy is perfectly reasonable. Particularly if the antibiotics aren’t necessary for human medicine.
The antibiotics are used so that the chickens don’t contract infections and die from living in inhumane conditions.
This change allows them to increase their profit margin at the cost of animal welfare.
The article specifically said they’re only going to administer antibiotics to sick chickens and those in close proximity to sick chickens, not generally as a preventative.
That’s zero sum, from the chicken-life perspective.
Die of infection or die by slaughter, their life isn’t changed by the variable in context.
Edit I’m saying antibiotics are not for the animal’s wellbeing. They are a tool to extract profit, and not let the chickens die at the wrong moment. That’s it.
Ah yes, nothing about your entire existence matters if the way you died wasn’t in an approved fashion.
Shit even if you just look at it in terms of the quality of the meat a stress free well fed animal will taste so much better than one that’s been stressed out its entire life fed literal garbage.
So strange that a fast food chain would are haters and popular
