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  • Antibiotics in animal nutrition.
     
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  • Drug resistance in microorganisms.
     
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  • Chickens -- Microbiology.
     
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  • Poultry -- Marketing.
     
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  • Chickens -- Marketing.
     
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    Big chicken : the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats / Maryn McKenna.
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  • Antibiotics in animal nutrition.
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  • Drug resistance in microorganisms.
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  • Chickens -- Microbiology.
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  • Poultry -- Marketing.
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  • Chickens -- Marketing.
  • Publisher Info: 
    Washington, DC : National Geographic Partners, LLC, [2017]
    Description: 
    400 pages ; 24 cm
    RDA Types: 
    text
    unmediated
    volume
    ISBN: 
    9781426217661
    1426217668
    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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    "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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