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Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC National Geographic Partners, LLC 2017Description: 400 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 978142621761
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 636.50895329 MCK-B .PS (AH)
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 -- Epilogue.
Summary: "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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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 -- Epilogue.

"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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