In her new book "Big Chicken," National Geographic contributor Maryn McKenna examines the connections between the development of chickens as an industrialized food source and the rise of antibiotic resistance, according to The Washington Post.
Ms. McKenna traces the history of how antibiotics permitted chickens to become a mass-produced food product, changing the way humans eat and impacting the future of infectious disease.
"Antibiotic resistance is like climate change," Ms. McKenna wrote in the book, according to the Post. "It is an overwhelming threat, created over decades by millions of individual decisions and reinforced by the actions of industries."
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