Chicken is the most consumed meat in the United States – but it wasn’t always that way. Maryn McKenna joins guest host Lauren Silverman to talk about how the increased use of antibiotics transformed chicken from a delicacy into a commodity. She tells the story in “Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats” (National Geographic).
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