Report Gives Starbucks a "D+" on Reducing Antibiotics in its Meat Supply

Behind KFC, McDonald's and Taco Bell.by Sydney BrownstoneThe company doesn't have a timeline to reduce the amount of medically important antibiotics in its beef or pork supply chains. Joe Raedle/Getty
As I noted in this week's Back to School article on urinary tract infections (fun!), researchers are linking antibiotics used in raising farm animals to strains of drug-resistant bacteria found in humans. For this reason, activist and food safety groups have long called on fast food chains—so