Chick Fil-A has announced plans to use chicken raised without antibiotics in its restaurants within five years. Decisions of that sort have also impacted the pork industry with customers and consumers making decisions about what production practices producers should use. National Pork Producers President Randy Spronk says as far as that antibiotic decision spilling over into the pork industry, if that’s disallowed, producers will not only lose a good tool to produce a healthy product but it will also negatively impact the environment and become more costly.

Spronk says while the customer may always be right, they don’t always make the proper and moral decisions when it comes to animal agriculture production.

He says producers need to be more active in explaining to consumers why they do what they do and regain the moral authority they need to have to be able to feed those in our country..