Thursday, June 21, 2007

Tyson Stops Using Antibiotics

"Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) issued a press release announcing a new strategy aimed at health-conscious consumers: The company will no longer use antibiotics on its chickens. From a marketing and branding point of view, Tyson's move makes a huge amount of sense."

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How lousy. Adding antibiotics for this long and only discontinuing the use because it's lucrative? I mean, it's good they are going to stop using antibiotics, but they shouldn't have been using them in the first place! It's sad how little companies care about their consumers.