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Investors renew push to get Sanderson Farms to cut antibiotic use

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sanderson Farms Inc shareholders have filed another proposal aimed at convincing the third-largest U.S. poultry producer to stop giving medically important antibiotics to healthy chickens for disease prevention.

Sanderson is the only large U.S. chicken producer that has not committed to curbing the use of those life-saving drugs.

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