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Title:
Big chicken : the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats / Maryn McKenna.
Author:
McKenna, Maryn, author.
Publication Information:
Washington, DC : National Geographic Partners, LLC, [2017]
Call Number:
SF98.A5 M35 2017
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.
ISBN:
9781426217661
Physical Description:
400 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Part 1. How chicken became essential -- Illness, and a bad year -- Better living through chemistry -- Meat for the price of bread -- Resistance begins -- Proving the problem -- Part 2. How chicken became dangerous -- Epidemics as evidence -- The triumph of the hybrids -- The cost of containment -- The unpredicted danger -- Part 3. How chicken changed -- The value of small -- Choosing cooperation -- The view from the barn -- The market speaks -- The past creates the future -- Epilogue.
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