Big Chicken
The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
Washington, DC : National Geographic Partners, LLC, [2017]
Format: Book
Description: 400 pages ; 24 cm
"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.
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.
Subjects:
Antibiotics in animal nutrition.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
Chickens -- Microbiology.
Poultry -- Marketing.
Chickens -- Marketing.
Antibiotics in animal nutrition.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
Chickens -- Microbiology.
Poultry -- Marketing.
Chickens -- Marketing.
ISBN:
9781426217661
| Availability | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
| SCIENCE Agriculture McK | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-389) and index.