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McDonalds Is Curbing Use of Antibiotics in Chicken, But Does It Go Far Enough?

McDonalds Is Curbing Use of Antibiotics in Chicken, But Does It Go Far Enough?

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In a response to “superbugs” and slumping sales, McDonald’s announced that within two years, it will only buy and sell “chicken raised without antibiotics that are important to human medicine.”

“We’re listening to our customers,” Marion Gross, the senior vice president of McDonald’s North American supply chain, told Reuters. The struggling fast food behemoth is trying to win back customers who want to eat more “natural” meat that’s free from antibiotics, the news agency reported.

McDonald’s Is Curbing Use of Antibiotics in Chicken, But Does It Go Far Enough?

-EcoWatch 3/5/2015