By Jacqueline Salinas / CALPIRG
(Photo: Jeeni Criscenzo)
On Tuesday, August 8th CALPIRG staff and volunteers will deliver petition signatures from thousands of San Diegans to a local KFC urging the fried chicken giant to stop serving meat raised with the routine use of antibiotics. Speakers will talk about the dangers of antibiotic resistance and how KFC can help stop it.
Antibiotic resistance is quickly becoming public enemy number one among health experts worldwide. This is especially true with the recent emergence of a new “superbug” resistant to a last resort antibiotic, colistin. The majority of the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are for use on livestock and poultry, not in doctors’ offices, and often for animals that aren’t sick.
Major restaurants like KFC can help stop that misuse of our life-saving medicines, as McDonald’s and Subway, and Chick-fil-A have all done.
Event will have great visuals, including backdrop of the KFC store, boxes of thousands of petitions signed by San Diegans and volunteers holding signs in support of saving antibiotics. The event will be held in front of KFC on 2829 University Ave, San Diego on Tuesday, August 8th at 11 a.m.
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I was looking at the photo thinking, those KFC chickens look just like mine… then I realized they ARE mine! KFC chickens can only wish they had such a good life.
Oops! Sorry for the credit omission, Jeenie. Just realized that images that we upload to our media library don’t always have the credit info stored in their data fields. When the editor for this item found this in our media library, there wasn’t any record of the source. I knew right away, though, that this is from your comical A Chicken Carol from last Christmas’ My Niche column. I’ve updated the post to add the info. Thanks for the reminder! -Rich K. (for SDFP)
Jacqueline
I am so glad to see this issue brought to light in our communities
Thanks Tia! It’s my pleasure to fight for consumer protection and save Antibiotics!
Great job!
What does it matter anti biotic free or not… its fried chicken, having transfats that cause heart disease/cancer. So you still lose at life eating there
It is impossible to regulate what people want to eat. It is however, possible to regulate what chemical companies and factory farms are feeding people.