McDonald’s and Taco Bell serve healthier food than Olive Garden and Cracker Barrel. Who would have thought? The third annual report of Friends of the Earth (www.foe.org) is as interesting as last years report.
Chain Reaction III is the third annual report and scorecard that grades America’s top restaurant chains on their policies and practices regarding the antibiotic use and transparency in their meat and poultry supply chains. Fourteen out of twenty-five chains received passing grades.
Most improved is KFC from last years F, to a B- this year. Eleven restaurants earned “F” grades for failing to adopt and disclose effective antibiotics stewardship policies
“We must stop squandering antibiotics on animals that aren’t sick at a time when these vital medications are losing their ability to fight infections in people,” said Jean Halloran, Director of Food Policy Initiatives at Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization arm of Consumer Reports. “Fast food restaurants have tremendous market power and should use their leverage to help address this public health crisis by ending the misuse of antibiotics.” (Source: FOE.org)
Healthy dishes start with healthy ingredients, it’s that simple.
This was a very frightening visual.
What caught my attention though was the contradiction between the organization’s name of “Friends of the Earth”, versus their URL name “foe.org” Being both friend and foe just struck me as funny.
Perhaps they are friend to the earth and foe to the ones who don’t respect the environment?
… and so we all should be 🙂
FoE is one of my favorite groups. They give this administration hell, as they should. 🙂
Yeah, but that’s easy. Giving the current administration hell is like shooting fish in a barrel 😉
Haha good one
So true!