‘Big Chicken’ chronicles the public health dangers of using antibiotics in farming
Efforts to raise bigger birds unwittingly spawned drug resistance in bacteria
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COOPED UP Thanks in large part to antibiotics, chicken production has become heavily industrialized, as detailed in a new book.
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