Tyson Foods, the largest poultry producer in the U.S., plans to start giving its chickens antibiotics again. The meatpacker announced the move after eight years of it withdrawing th...
Tyson Foods, the largest poultry producer in the U.S., plans to start giving its chickens antibiotics again. The meatpacker announced the move after eight years of it withdrawing the drugs from its chickens and putting a"no antibiotics ever" label on its chicken packages.
"People believe that they will be healthier with humanely raised, grass fed free range, then they should have the assurance of those labels being truthful and accurate," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, one of the lawmakers leading the charge over labels. Today, Senator Blumenthal has called on the USDA to get a third party to look into what producers are claiming about their meat, before hitting America's store shelves.
"The reason that antibiotic free poultry is more expensive is because it's more expensive proposition. It doesn't mean that it is any less safe or any less tasteful for that matter. It really depends on the consumer's preference and that preference should be based on science and facts and not emotion," said Peter Pitts, a former associate commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the current president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.
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