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Stop
Antibiotics Overuse At McDonald's
Among fast food chains, McDonald's has been praised
in the past for initiating efforts to modestly improve
the horrible factory farm conditions in which animals
are raised, beginning to address such cruel practices
as forced molting, beak-trimming, and confinement in
inadequate space. However, on the issue of routinely
feeding farm animals antibiotics (with so-called "nontherapeutic"
doses) - in order to speed their growth and compensate
for stressful, congested, unsanitary quarters - McDonald's
has fallen behind other fast food companies. Subway,
KFC, Domino's, Hardee's and Dairy Queen have pledged
that they will no longer sell chicken fed nontherapeutic
antibiotics. But McDonald's has not yet given up this
practice, which serves as a crutch for inhumane treatment
on factory farms, and threatens human health. The overuse
of antibiotics in farm animals promotes antibiotic resistance
- meaning the drugs won't work when they're really needed
to treat illness in people.
Please ask McDonald's to stop selling meat from chickens
who have been fed nontherapeutic antibiotics:
Jack Greenberg, CEO
McDonald's Corporation
One Kroc Drive
Oak Brook, IL 60523
Fax: 630-623-6942
(or go to
http://www.mcdonalds.com/countries/usa/corporate/contacts/index.html
to
send a comment electronically)
You can also help end antibiotics
overuse in factory farms throughout the U.S.
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