date:Dec 12, 2018
for food production fell 14 percent from 2015 to 2016, the first decline in year-to-year sales since the agency began collecting the data in 2009. Chicken accounted for 6 percent of the sales, while swine and cattle came in at 37 percent and 43 percent, respectively.
Many restaurants and meat companies have moved away from using antibiotics in chicken production in recent years, in part because McDonald's did so. The Chicago-based chain has an outsize influence on farm practices due to its size