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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