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Big chicken the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats

"Americans eat chicken more than any other meat. But our nation's favorite food comes with an invisible cost: its insidious effect on our health. In this extraordinary narrative, acclaimed journalist Maryn McKenna reveals how antibiotic use has altered the way we consume industrially raise...

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Main Author: McKenna, Maryn (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Washington, DC : National Geographic Partners, LLC, [2017]
Subjects:
Antibiotics in animal nutrition.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
Chickens > Microbiology.
Poultry > Marketing.
Chickens > Marketing.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1.
  • How Chicken Became Essential.
  • 1.
  • Illness, and a bad year ;
  • 2.
  • Better living through chemistry ;
  • 3.
  • Meat for the price of bread ;
  • 4.
  • Resistance begins ;
  • 5.
  • Proving the problem
  • pt. 2.
  • How Chicken Became Dangerous.
  • 6.
  • Epidemics as evidence ;
  • 7.
  • The triumph of the hybrids ;
  • 8.
  • The cost of contamination ;
  • 9.
  • The unpredicted danger
  • pt. 3.
  • How Chicken Changed.
  • 10.
  • The value of small ;
  • 11.
  • Choosing cooperation ;
  • 12.
  • The view from the barn ;
  • 13.
  • The market speaks ;
  • 14.
  • The past creates the future.

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