S10:E01, “Big Chicken” edition, with Maryn McKenna (video)

Posted by jnshaumeyer on 22 September 2017

Streamed live on 20 September 2017.

Industrial chicken farming, antiobiotic resistance, and the future of both were on our minds, and in our conversation, today when we talk with Maryn McKenna, author of Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. The word “incredible” seems almost inadequate to describe the stories she tells.

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