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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.
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“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
I mean, consumers are proud to lower their standards all the time.
I don’t see why this would be any different.
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.
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Not sure if you’re a sexist asshole or referring to tests that were originally made to be sexist/racist to only prefer a specific type of person, like the Jim Crow Literary tests that were purposely difficult and confusing to stop black folks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?
Women firefighters are currently fighting wildfires in my state and actively saving lives. Get fucked, chauvinist
That’s great! I never said I had a problem with that. For the women who can legitimately pass the test, that’s wonderful!
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
Stop spending so much on homophobia
If you could get them to ignore their “moral compass” you could save them $4,416
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.
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.
Who cares? Are you working there?
Also: bullshit. No other fast-food company makes their workers stand out in 100F weather to take orders.
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.
Just tell your customers you upped the Jesus in every sandwich and they’ll overlook everything else.
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I don’t get the popularity of Chick-fil-A. Bland sandwiches and little variety.
It has a conservative Christian cult following due to the founder’s political and religious views.
They don’t give a shit about LGBT lives, but they sure do give a shit about antibiotics… I’ll give you a single guess as to why.
Turns frogs gay?
Extremely gay
No it doesn’t. It’s just generally immensely popular.
No, it’s both.
Yep. It was popular before that information was spread far and wide. After the information spread a certain group of people are now die hard fans.
First off, remember it’s fast food, standards are abysmal.
But it’s an actual piece of chicken, that’s actually prepared correctly.
If you got it in a sit down restaurant or even pub, you wouldn’t comment on it.
But compare it to any other chicken sandwich you could get from a drive thru in the last 20 years and the hype makes sense.
No matter where you are, if you see a chicfila you know you’ll get a decent chicken sandwich that isn’t ridiculously expensive.
A burger place isn’t going to do chicken as well as a dedicated chicken place, and KFC is a joke, so the only real competition for that niche is Popeyes on a national level.
I guess you can still call it good but they switched to Tyson on the East Coast like 10 years ago and yeah it’s bland and generic.
KFC in North America could learn a thing or two from KFC in China. It’s their McDonald’s.
Popeye’s is better. I’ve had Chick-fil-A once (bought for me) and it was exactly what it looked like: a chicken sandwich. It was a bit bland and watery.
If juicy=flavorful then sure, it’s flavorful. I look for more though.
One thing I do like is that they have (the option of) whole grain buns… I’ve been unable to find that elsewhere.
Dave’s Hot Chicken would like a word with you.
Well if there was one within a thousand miles of me Maybe it could
It’s also pretty expensive
Twenty years ago? Probably?
Ten years ago? Doubtful
But the past few years have seen most of the fast food fried chicken places go hard on chicken sandwiches. And even mcdonald’s has stepped up their game to being actually pretty decent.
Mostly chikfila just coasts on their recognition from 20 years ago and the zealots who refuse to try anything else.
Incidentally you can tell which universe a person is from by how they spell Chik-fil-a
You spell it the way it was spelled in my original universe
Fast food also varies so much across the US. I talked up Chick-fil-A so much after having it in Texas, and then when I brought my girlfriend to one in Florida it was garbage.
in Florida it was garbage.
I’ve identified the issue…
Seriously. It’s like being in love with average quality.
In my city, the dive bar makes better chicken sandwiches. How depressing that people live like that.
Right wing chicken chain has loyal right wing followers
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May 2023 and first I heard of it. I think this one got no attention.
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This is the only explanation that makes any sense.
Your forgot expensive too.
Everything is expensive now
You are right. I’m going to cry in a pillow now
I’d cry in my pillow but I can’t afford one. Cries in late stage capitalist pre-apocalyptic dystopian Zeitgeist
It’s because the jesus is fresh with every meal, christian’s really eat that shit up
I prefer “Dave’s Hot Chicken”. Large boobs, and lots of spice.
The peach milkshake slaps but the food sucks. Popeyes is better for God’s sake.
Of course I stopped going entirely after they said they stopped donating to LGBTQA+ groups and then got fucking caught doing it yet again so yeah fuck Hate Chicken
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It is pretty much the pinnacle of “white people fried chicken”. American KFC (because Asian KFC is godlike) comes close but so many people never grew up beyond eating chicken tenders and bones scare them.
So you have inadequately seasoned chicken tenders soaked in pickle juice and people lose their minds.
And the strong focus on Christian Values, err, “Good service” means that nobody will ever be faced with the horror that is the realization that their satisfaction is not the only reason that someone is working in fast food.
Yeah, I mean, their stuff is okay but pretty unexciting IMHO. They might be inexpensive, kinda the Taco Bell route.
I think you’re just being contrarian.
Their fries didn’t even have salt when I tried them
Reliable/consistent, fast.
No one gives a shit about the politics of the company outside of the permanently online
Popeye’s chicken sandwiches are better.
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
“citing supply issues.”
When a business “cites” anything, they really mean “we think we can make more money doing this.”
What’ll be funny about this is when they look at it having no impact on sales, so they just keep it.
I bet god spoke to the CEO one night as a burning sack of cash and said this was a great idea.
Rather they changed their politics instead of their shitty diabetes.menu
I’ve never been there because of their politics.
Shitty company who hates regular people does a thing and I don’t care.
What do you mean ‘hates regular people’?
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.
Bojangles
Still hatin’ teh gheys tho
Should’ve raised prices.
Maybe they could just go away
