Title:
Big chicken : the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats
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ISBN:
9781426217661
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2017]
Physical Description:
400 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Illness, and a bad year -- Better living through chemistry -- Meat for the price of bread -- Resistance begins -- Proving the problem -- Epidemics as evidence -- The triumph of the hybrids -- The cost of contamination -- The unpredicted danger -- The value of small -- Choosing cooperation -- The view from the barn -- The market speaks -- The past creates the future.
Abstract:
"In this eye-opening exposé, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributer Maryn McKenna documents how antibiotics transformed chicken from local delicacy to industrial commodity -- and human health threat -- uncovering the ways we can make America's favorite meat safer again." -- Amazon.com.
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