Chick-Fil-A and Panera Bread abandon pledges not to use antibiotic-raised chicken

Chick-Fil-A and Panera Bread pledged to protect the health of customers by not using chicken raised on antibiotics. The pledges lasted as long as it took for them to run out of chickens.

The fast-food chain Chick-Fil-A backtracked from its decade-old 'no antibiotics ever' pledge intended to help prevent human antibiotic resistance linked to the rampant use of the drugs in livestock production.

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