They die, just like sick chickens in regular old conventional chicken houses. You think farmers can treat individual chickens? Nope. Those who get sick, die.
If chickens get sick in a large operation, they are treated with antibiotics. However that coop/ barn is no longer organic and will be sold as conventional chicken.
Thank you for your recent inquiry about antibiotics.
Our USDA Process Verified Program for No Antibiotics Ever is your assurance that our chickens were raised with absolutely no antibiotics ever - not in the hatchery (we do not inject antibiotics into the egg), or on the farm, including in the food or water.
If there is a disease that requires medication, it will be prescribed on a targeted basis by one of our veterinarians as part of our commitment to poultry welfare. Treatments are delivered through the water and are typically for three days or less and only in the affected flock(s). These treated flocks will never enter our production lines, but will be offered to other poultry lines that allow the use of antibiotics.
Of course, we never use hormones or steroids; Federal law prohibits their use in poultry production.
Should you have further questions or concerns, please call us toll-free at 1-800-473-7383 Monday through Friday 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM ET (6:30 AM to 3:00 PM PT). You may also e-mail us at www.perdue.com®.
They die, just like sick chickens in regular old conventional chicken houses. You think farmers can treat individual chickens? Nope. Those who get sick, die.
ReplyDeleteIt's illegal and immoral not to treat sick livestock.
DeleteAs far as animal welfare is concerned antibiotics for everyone is better than antibiotics for no one.
Ok, you try to go into a house with 35,000 broilers and find the sick ones to treat them.
ReplyDeletePerhaps 35,000 broiler chickens should not be in a chicken house if it prevents sick animals from being identified.
DeleteThankfully cheap commercially produced chicken where sick animals were overlooked and suffered to death is not a requirement to sustain human life.
If chickens get sick in a large operation, they are treated with antibiotics. However that coop/ barn is no longer organic and will be sold as conventional chicken.
ReplyDeleteThis Purdue campaign has nothing to do with organic.
DeleteIt's simply "no antibiotics ever".
Anon 3:13 you were correct.
DeleteDear Meredith:
ReplyDeleteThank you for your recent inquiry about antibiotics.
Our USDA Process Verified Program for No Antibiotics Ever is your assurance that our chickens were raised with absolutely no antibiotics ever - not in the hatchery (we do not inject antibiotics into the egg), or on the farm, including in the food or water.
If there is a disease that requires medication, it will be prescribed on a targeted basis by one of our veterinarians as part of our commitment to poultry welfare. Treatments are delivered through the water and are typically for three days or less and only in the affected flock(s). These treated flocks will never enter our production lines, but will be offered to other poultry lines that allow the use of antibiotics.
Of course, we never use hormones or steroids; Federal law prohibits their use in poultry production.
Should you have further questions or concerns, please call us toll-free at 1-800-473-7383 Monday through Friday 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM ET (6:30 AM to 3:00 PM PT). You may also e-mail us at www.perdue.com®.
Kindest regards,
Mary Beth James
Consumer Relations
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Hmm, that's what I figured was happening, too. Good you wrote to them Meredith.
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