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

Author: McKenna, Maryn.

Imprint:Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2017]

Description400 pages ; 24 cm

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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