Chick-Fil-A Will Scrap Its 'No Antibiotics' Policy For One Major Exception - Chowhound

Using antibiotics to treat livestock can diminish its efficacy in the long term. It's an effect called antimicrobial resistance — essentially, the more a certain strain of bacteria is exposed to antibiotics, the less effective those antibiotics become at killing said bacteria. If antimicrobial resistance goes too far, it can render essential medications useless. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…