KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge
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#3It's a shame. Perdue managed to get wway from antibiotics but KFC went the other way.
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#4I was reading today that we have managed to grow chickens with so much fat that the meat is less healthy than red meat.
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#5Interesting that the pledge is about fast growing vs normal growing chicken. Does the UK not have the overcrowded cage conditions we have here in the US?
The complaint is about these companies not wanting to reduce their profit margins, but how slowly do the other chickens grow? Are we doubling maturity time or increasing it by 10%? Doubling would probably impact consumer prices beyond what could be absorbed by eliminating the margin.
Most lay opinions I can find online claim the fast growing birds to have inferior meat quality. I wonder if I could distinguish in a blind taste test.
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#6It's a shame. Perdue managed to get wway from antibiotics but KFC went the other way.
Maybe it is not a big deal? Chicken goes through withdrawal period and level of residue is tested in end product, supposedly..
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#7I recently had a discussion with my wife and we check our bank records to find out how long it's been since we've been to a KFC, McDonalds or Burger King. Apparently it's been 16 months now.
It's overpriced, unhealthy and American. Enough reasons to not go.
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#8Fuck these companies, just fucking killing the planet and anyone that touches their food
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#9High streets are dying, pretty sure half the restaurants closest to me are either closed or going to close down soon. Coming back from Japan it was certainly a whiplash to find just a row of fried chicken shops and empty restaurants.
It made me rethink how great of a signal GDP growth really is on how good things are economically.
Re: KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge
#10It's a shame. Perdue managed to get wway from antibiotics but KFC went the other way.
Maybe it is not a big deal? Chicken goes through withdrawal period and level of residue is tested in end product, supposedly..
If you pump livestock (chicken, cows or pigs) full of antibiotics, surely they are going to piss/crap a lot of it into the environment, hastening antibiotic resistance.