‘Big Chicken’ chronicles the public health dangers of using antibiotics in farming
Efforts to raise bigger birds unwittingly spawned drug resistance in bacteria

COOPED UP Thanks in large part to antibiotics, chicken production has become heavily industrialized, as detailed in a new book.
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