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.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Not sure if you’re a sexist asshole or referring to tests that were originally made to be sexist/racist to only prefer a specific type of person, like the Jim Crow Literary tests that were purposely difficult and confusing to stop black folks from voting.

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      9 months ago

      Evaluations for firefighters have physical requirements. It is a physical job, men and women do tend to have different biological characteristics.

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      They were test to assure safety of human life, and women couldn’t pass them. So they lowered them. The biggest one was being able to carry a person of a specific mass out of an area within a specific amount of time, with all your gear on, in a smoke filled room. Few men were able to pass it, and almost no women. So they lowered the amount of weight and upped the time limit. Sometimes even just flubbed the women passing so they could reach diversity goals.

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

      Now the thing that’s really sexist, is denying sexual dimorphism exists within the human species and that men --in general-- can be better suited among the general populace for specific tasks when it comes to simple brute strength.

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        Women firefighters are currently fighting wildfires in my state and actively saving lives. Get fucked, chauvinist

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          9 months ago

          That’s great! I never said I had a problem with that. For the women who can legitimately pass the test, that’s wonderful!