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Author McKenna, Maryn, author.

Title Big chicken : the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats / Maryn McKenna.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : National Geographic Partners, LLC, [2017]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  636.5 MCKENNA    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  636.5 MCK    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  636.5 MCKENNA    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  636.5089 MCKENNA    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  636.5089 MCKENNA    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  636.5 MCKENNA, MARYN    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  636.5089 MCKENNA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  338.1 MCKENNA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  636.5 MCK    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  636.5 MCKENNA    Check Shelf

Description 400 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-389) and index.
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.
Summary Examines the role of antibiotics in industrial farming and the impact these mass food-processing practices are having on people's lives and health.
"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.
Subject Antibiotics in animal nutrition.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
Chickens -- Microbiology.
Poultry -- Marketing.
Chickens -- Marketing.
ISBN 9781426217661 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1426217668 (hardcover alkaline paper)
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