The fast-food chain has announced that it will soon allow certain antibiotics to be used in the chickens it raises, citing supply issues.

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.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    152·
    8 months ago

    “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”? 🤔

    • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      8 months ago

      If the other choice is make less money then it’s obvious what corporations will do

    • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      8 months ago

      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.

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
        44·
        8 months ago

        Not sure if you’re a sexist asshole or referring to tests that were originally made to be sexist/racist to only prefer a specific type of person, like the Jim Crow Literary tests that were purposely difficult and confusing to stop black folks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.

        • distantsounds@lemmy.worldEnglish
          28·
          8 months ago

          Evaluations for firefighters have physical requirements. It is a physical job, men and women do tend to have different biological characteristics.

        • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          20·
          8 months ago

          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.

          • metaldream@sopuli.xyz
            10·
            8 months ago

            Women firefighters are currently fighting wildfires in my state and actively saving lives. Get fucked, chauvinist

            • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              8 months ago

              That’s great! I never said I had a problem with that. For the women who can legitimately pass the test, that’s wonderful!

      • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          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.

          • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            People will die because of it, but hey…women firefighters! WOO HOO!

            You clearly don’t think that.

            • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              I literally just told you what I think, and nobody could know that better than me, but…sure.

              If you can’t tell though – I was clearly being facetious.