Big chicken : the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats / Maryn McKenna.
McKenna, Maryn, author.
2017
SF98.A5 M35 2017eb
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Title Big chicken : the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats / Maryn McKenna.
Author McKenna, Maryn, author.
ISBN 9781426217678 (electronic book)
1426217676 (electronic book)
9781426217661
1426217668
Published Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (400 pages)
Call Number SF98.A5 M35 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 636.5/0895329
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-389) and index.
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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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