Ban Antibiotics — McDonald’s Investor

As one of the members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), the sisters have proposed this type of idea before.

But the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that eating antibiotic-treated meat can lead to certain drug resistance in humans.

They withdrew the resolution once McDonald’s US announced in March that it would phase out chicken produced with antibiotics important to human health within two years.

McDonald’s previously stated it would reduce the use of antibiotics in chickens, but according to the group the standard has not changed on beef and pork products served at the thousands of McDonald’s Restaurants. Susan Mika of the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of Boerne.

“If the corporation were serious about becoming a ‘modern, progressive burger company, ‘” said Madhusoodanan, referring to the mantra of McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook, “it would immediately implement a strong, accountable and transparent antibiotics policy across its supply chain”. “This double standard makes no sense to us; what’s good for the goose, ought to be good for the gander, or in this case, the whole farmyard.”

When we buy meat from a grocery store, we’re generally given various choices. The said antibiotics are reportedly used by fast food chains to prevent illness and fatten up livestock.

With increasing pressure being placed on the industry to regulate antibiotic use, a report from Friends of the Earth highlights a distinct lack of policy and poor practice within many top American fast food restaurants. She available the nuns along at the McDonald’s yearly encounter on May 21, at which they reported which the quality resolution was minified, although it remain referenced involve over McDonald’s pig and… The only chains that were given an A grade were Chipotle and Panera Bread.

McDonalds received a grade of C in a recent report scoring restaurants on antibiotic usage.

The coalition said it gave Subway partial credit for its new policy because its website indicates only support for the “elimination of subtherapeutic use of antibiotics”, and it is unclear whether the company would end all routine antibiotic use in its supply chains.