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.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This is completely off topic, but here’s some facts for you, from someone who works at a fire department.

    Those physical fitness tests were pretty arbitrary. They don’t have much basis in the job itself.
    At most departments, physical fitness tests are for the application only, and a LARGE percentage of current firefighters couldn’t pass them just a few years later.
    There are many, many jobs a firefighter does, and most of them do not require massive amounts of physical strength.
    Firefighters deal with the public, and often in a medical capacity far more often than an extinguishing fire capacity. Having female paramedics available to run medical calls is very important for the community. This is the same for having a mix of employees from all socioeconomic groups that are in the area.
    There are a LOT of fire departments that are switching to a more fair entrance criteria, and that is making the job better, not worse.

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      7 months ago

      I know you’ve just kind of had a knee jerk reaction here, but I don’t think women should be restricted from that field ya know…I’m perfectly okay with it.

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        7 months ago

        People will die because of it, but hey…women firefighters! WOO HOO!

        You clearly don’t think that.

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          7 months ago

          I literally just told you what I think, and nobody could know that better than me, but…sure.

          If you can’t tell though – I was clearly being facetious.