The founder of Murray’s Chickens, Murray Bresky, has lambasted the New York Times for yesterday’s [Wednesday’s] article on the use of antibiotics in poultry, and claims that the real antibiotic- free pioneers did not wait for a consumer and government outcry to reduce antibiotic use.
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“For the editors of the New York Times; to suggest that Perdue Farms, Tyson Foods and Foster Farms are “pioneers” for their reduction of use of antibiotics belittles the efforts of the real pioneers of producers of chickens grown without the use of antibiotics, such as Murray’s Chickens, Eberly Poultry and Petaluma Poultry,” said Bresky.
“We at Murray’s have been addressing the unnecessary use of antibiotics issue from the day we hatched our first egg,” he added: “We have been able to grow our birds with the humane treatment of chickens in mind. Our growing practices help reduce infection, and by extension, the need for antibiotics not a consumer and government outcry to reduce antibiotic use.”
