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Oversight-free chickens
Posted on June 09, 2008
Last fall the animal slaughter giant Tyson Foods, Inc. was selling chickens with a USDA approved label, raised without antibiotics. Some people thought that was a bit misleading insofar as Tyson routinely used ionophores in their feed designed to prevent a fungal disease in the birds. The USDA classes ionophores as antibiotics. The agency had overlooked the additive and when it was forcefully brought to their attention, they asked Tyson to add words to their label indicating it used no antibiotics that could cause antibiotic resistance in humans. Tyson added the words in December but never...
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