Big chicken
Subtitle: the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats
By: Maryn McKenna
Publisher: National Geographic Partners, LLC
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781426217661
Subjects: Poultry; Antibiotics in animal nutrition; Drug resistance in microorganisms; Marketing; Chickens; Microbiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-389) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. How chicken became essential; title: Illness, and a bad year; title: Better living through chemistry; title: Meat for the price of bread; title: Resistance begins; title: Proving the problem; title: Part 2. How chicken became dangerous; title: Epidemics as evidence; title: The triumph of the hybrids; title: The cost of containment; title: The unpredicted danger; title: Part 3. How chicken changed; title: The value of small; title: Choosing cooperation; title: The view from the barn; title: The market speaks; title: The past creates the future; title: Epilogue.