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.
“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
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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.
The in-n-out system. Most of their meat comes from their own farms and processing facilities.
This is also why they’ve expanded incredibly slowly compared to most fast food chains
Wawa as well. They have their own cows for their milk.
That god they don’t actually have to do that to have chicken standards.
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Not sure if you’re a sexist asshole or referring to tests that were originally made to be sexist/racist to only prefer a specific type of person, like the Jim Crow Literary tests that were purposely difficult and confusing to stop black folks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.
People will die because of it, but hey…women firefighters! WOO HOO!
You clearly don’t think that.
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.
Chick-fil-A budget
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Homophobia $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my company is dying
Fuck ChikFila and thier bigot sponsors.
Absolutely fuck ChikFila I haven’t spent a dime at ChikFila since they started all the anti lgbt bullshit in the 2010s.
I bought a sandwich for them when I read that they stopped doing all that stuff, of course they quitely started up again.
You really aren’t missing much. It is marginally better quality compared to any chain and lower quality than a real restaurant.
Fuck chick fil a. Since I worked there back in 2015, they’ve cut portion sizes by almost a third and raised priced by almost 50%.
I call bullshit. You can source antibiotic free chicken if you’ll pay for it, they’re just trying to extract more profit again.
Insofar as I recall they’re still one of the better fast food joints wrt worker treatment.
It’s a very mixed bag, due to the fact that most of them are franchises.
I remember when I quit and went to amazon, my hourly went up by more than 50%. I worked 20 hours less every week and for health insurance.
But there’s also some near me with signs up advertising $18/hour.
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I hate to “actually” you, but i will.
In-n-out, another franchise known for treating employees very well, uses the same system for ordering with an employee outside walking from car to car.
The chik-fil-a near me, the outside workers all have lots of shade.
Be mad all you want, but be mad at things that exist.
The chik-fil-a near me, the outside workers all have lots of shade.
In Florida CFA drive thrus they wear little portable shade tents with built in fans, under awnings that cover the entire drive thru with multiple clusters of fans blowing down from them.
Still hot as fuck.
No other fast food place does it because “just standing” they don’t consider to be working and they ALL run skeleton crews now. Time to lean time to clean bullshit.
Just to be clear fuck Chick-fil-A as they also force their workers to buy $80+ jackets to deal with the weather.
I find it almost impossible a religious business treats their workers well……THEY FUCKING WORSHIP god FOR SUCKS SAKE
I’m not defending chick fil a here, but this is some busted ass logic. I don’t see how worshipping god has any bearing on how they treat workers.
christians treating people like shit is my logic, like they have done for hundreds and hundreds of years. So it seems logical a christian business would treat people like shit.
As I said, busted ass logic.
Just tell your customers you upped the Jesus in every sandwich and they’ll overlook everything else.
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I bet god spoke to the CEO one night as a burning sack of cash and said this was a great idea.
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They are facing a genuine supply issue. A different company made a sudden move because they wanted to maximize profits.
Tyson, one of the main chicken processors, killed their no-antibiotics program at the end of 2023. They moved from claiming meat came from chickens that had had no antibiotics used (NAE) to claiming no human-relevant antibiotics had been used (NAIHM).
The rest of the market can’t meet the demand for NAE, at least not in the short term.
“citing suppy issues”
Hmm… our supply of cash would be bigger if we cut corners over here. The thought of the potentially bigger cash pile is now bothersome to me.
Popeye’s chicken sandwiches are better.
If the cooking oil is fresh, this is 100% true. That fucking sandwich is a banger.
The hard part for me is finding a Popeye’s that has fresh cooking oil. : (
No they aren’t and I feel bad for anyone who thinks so just because of this comment.
How u have time to gaf about fast food?!?!
He asks as he gaf about some random Lemmy comment lmao
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?
The chicken has always been moist-soggy. This was fine when everyone else had dry as fuck chicken. Now everyone else has figured out the moist-crispy sandwich and CFA just isn’t that great.
Yes. The chicken is soggy and gross.
So, no.
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.
I’ve heard they were good and tried it a couple of times. It was the worst fast food I’ve ever had. The worst was some little cafe in WInnepeg where they gave me fried eggs instead of scrambled. When I asked for scrambled, they took it in back and chopped up the fried egg, and cooked it a little more. That does not make scrambled eggs.
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.
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
Still hatin’ teh gheys tho
Fuck chikfila, and fuck you if you spend your money there. Fucking bigots
Hey now, the chicken don’t taste homophobic.
are you regularly tasting homophobes to the point where you feel qualified to make that statement?
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.
Ironically enough, they hire shit tons of LGTBQ+ people in my area and the LGBTQ+ crowd fucking stans them.
Although I rarely eat there, maybe once or twice a year, this is all the justification I need.
Rather they changed their politics instead of their shitty diabetes.menu
I’ve never been there because of their politics.
Good. Fuck hick fil-a
Maybe they should try making it good.
Soggy salty chicken sandwich was fine in 2003 when everyone else was doing dry chicken sandwich. Now the meta is crunchy and juicy chicken sandwich so CFA is just mid.
I’m thinking that this homophobic fast food restaurant does not warrant the amount of comments in this thread. Yes I am aware of the irony of my commenting.
Shitty company who hates regular people does a thing and I don’t care.
What do you mean ‘hates regular people’?
