Does Chick-fil-A use steroids?

Chick-fil-A chicken is 100% pure breast meat with no fillers, additives, hormones and steroids. No artificial or added hormones are used in the production of any poultry in the United States. “Transparency in our food is important to our customers, and it's important to us too,” said Cathy.
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Is Chick-fil-A chicken real or processed?

As the nation's largest chicken chain, we take chicken seriously. Chick-fil-A sources 100% real, whole, boneless breast of chicken that has never been ground or separated, and that contains no fillers or added steroids or hormones*.
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Do chicken nuggets have steroids?

None of McDonald's chicken in the U.S. contains added hormones, as the use of hormones in poultry is banned by federal law.
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Is Chick-fil-A chicken antibiotic free?

Chick-fil-A® Now Serving "No Antibiotics Ever" Chicken at All Restaurants in the U.S. By not allowing antibiotics of any kind, Chick-fil-A chicken meets the highest commitment for non-antibiotic use.
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Do they give chicken steroids?

In fact, the USDA has banned all hormones and steroids in poultry since the 1950s. No hormones or steroids are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use in poultry, and doing so via the water, feed or injection is specifically prohibited by law.
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What do they inject in chicken?

Plumping, or injecting, as it is called in the industry, has been going on for some time. In the past five years, this industry process has become the standard. Fresh chicken is injected with a solution of saltwater so it stays juicier and more flavorful (so they say).
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Is putting hormones in chicken illegal?

No chickens raised in the U.S. or internationally, are given hormones. Feeding chickens additional hormones has been illegal in the U.S. since the 1950s, and it's just not a cost-effective way to raise chickens.
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Does Chick-fil-A use hormones in their chicken?

Chick-fil-A chicken is 100% pure breast meat with no fillers, additives, hormones and steroids. No artificial or added hormones are used in the production of any poultry in the United States. “Transparency in our food is important to our customers, and it's important to us too,” said Cathy.
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Is Chick-fil-A high quality?

Top quality has always been our approach to food, and because chicken is at the center of our menu, that means serving only whole, boneless breasts of chicken – no fillers or artificial preservatives.
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Is Chick-fil-A chicken humane?

Undercover investigators with Mercy For Animals have documented the heart-wrenching cruelty chickens killed for Chick-fil-A are forced to endure, including: Baby birds crammed by the tens of thousands into giant, windowless sheds, with sick, injured, and crippled birds left to suffer without proper veterinary care.
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Is McDonald's chicken fake?

The photo is not a representation of how we create our Chicken McNuggets®, or for that matter, any item on our menu. Each and every one of our Chicken McNuggets® is made with USDA-inspected boneless white-meat chicken—cut from the chicken breast, tenderloins and rib meat.
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What are Chick Fil A nuggets made of?

Besides chicken, Chick-fil-A's nuggets are made with a "milk wash" of nonfat milk and egg, peanut oil for frying, and a seasoned breading that includes flour, sugar, salt, MSG, and a signature spice blend.
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What are McNuggets really made of?

Chicken nuggets are made with white chicken meat that comes from the breast or pectoral muscles of the birds, and other chicken parts can be mixed in as well. Tendons, bones, nervous and connective tissues, and fat can all be ground up together before being shaped into those bite-sized pieces.
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Why shouldn't you eat at Chick-fil-A?

Eater writer Ryan Sutton agrees on the subject of the flavorless breast, saying, "Problem is, Chick-fil-A's chicken has too much salt, not enough fat, and very little crunch. The chief flavors of the sandwich are industrial neon pickle, sugar, and peanut oil."
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Is Chick-fil-A unhealthy?

Chicken is a great source of protein, and Chick-fil-A does offer more healthy options than several other fast food restaurants. However, the restaurant's food is still highly processed, so consider having it only occasionally for optimal health.
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Why is Chick-fil-A so addictive?

If You're Addicted to Chick-Fil-A, This Ingredient May Explain Why. It was recently brought to everyone's attention that Chick-Fil-A uses MSG (Monosodium glutamate) in their food and since the news surfaced, people are having mixing feelings about it.
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Is Chick-fil-A clean?

Cleanliness: A Business Insider report that surveyed 3,000 people found participants ranked Chick-fil-A as the country's cleanest fast-food restaurant. In total, 55% of respondents said the restaurant was the most clean. Starbucks and In-N-Out placed second and third on the list, respectively.
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What is wrong with Chick-fil-A nuggets?

While these out-of-stock nuggets may simply be the result of major supply shortages that have plagued just about every fast food chain in recent weeks, some Chick-fil-A employees have made claims that the nuggets are actually gone because they have been recalled by the company.
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Which is better McDonald's or Chick-fil-A?

The results are in and Chick-fil-A wins big (again) with a score of 83, and McDonald's pulls in last, scoring 70, according to findings recently released by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI).
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Does Chick-fil-A use fillers?

The chicken is 100% breast meat (no antibiotics, fillers or additives) and hand-breaded in the restaurant kitchens, then pressure cooked in peanut oil before being piled onto a toasted, buttered bun with dill pickle chips.
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Does Chick-fil-A soak their chicken in pickle juice?

It's the pickle brine! Well before being fried to perfection, the chicken breasts are brined with pickle juice for super-juicy, tender meat. People go wild for this chicken.
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What oil does Chick-fil-A use?

Every piece of pressure-cooked chicken that comes out of a Chick-fil-A kitchen has been cooked in peanut oil. It's an ingredient that Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy vouched for ever since he invented his famed Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich, says Worrell.
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What brand of chicken has no hormones?

Despite what you may hear, no artificial or added hormones are used in the production of any poultry in the United States. Regulations of the Food & Drug Administration prohibit the use of such hormones. No such hormones are used. So any brand of chicken can be labeled “Raised without hormones” or something like that.
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Why are chicken breasts so big now?

Chickens today are in fact bigger and grow faster! As the demand for chicken as a protein has increased, especially chicken parts like breasts or thighs versus whole birds, farmers have worked to create larger and healthier chickens to meet that demand.
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Are chickens injected with antibiotics?

On factory farms, antibiotics are used for two reasons: to promote growth and to prevent or treat infection. They're administered regularly in the chickens' feed, and they're so effective at encouraging rapid growth that today's chickens are twice as large as chickens were 60 years ago.
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