AMHERST, Mass. — Beginning in September, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Dining Services is pledging to serve 100-percent, no-antibiotic-ever chicken in all of its retail and residential operations.
As part of the dining program’s ongoing partnership with NatureRaised Farms, part of the Tyson Foods family of companies, UMass Dining is one of the first universities and the largest college and university foodservice program in the country to take this pledge.
The decision was made following a 2015 survey (completed in April) of 4,000 UMass Amherst students, that revealed the student body believes in the importance of. . .