Click above to hear part 1 of Bacteria to the Future, featuring Maryn McKenna, investigative journalist who specializes in public health and food policy, and author of “Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats.” She explains how post-WWII farming took on the practice of feeding livestock antibiotics, and dipping the post-slaughter product into a vat of antibiotics, a practice called “acronizing.”
Bacteria to the Future:
Part 1: Antibiotics on the Farm
Part 2: Antibiotics off the Farm
Part 3: Set Phages to Kill
