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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 07, 2017, 02:20:17 pm

Title: Would you opt to see the future or decipher the past?
Post by: rangerrebew on December 07, 2017, 02:20:17 pm

    Would you opt to see the future or decipher the past?
    November 29, 2017
    by Elizabeth Quill
 

Journalist Maryn McKenna opens Big Chicken by teasing our taste buds with a description of the succulent roasted chickens she bought at an open-air market in Paris. The birds tasted nothing like the bland, uniform chicken offered at U.S. grocery stores. This meat had an earthy, lush, animal flavor. From this tantalizing oh-so-European tableau, McKenna hits us with a sickening contrast — scientists chasing outbreaks of drug-resistant Salmonella infections in humans, and ailing chickens living in crowded conditions and never seeing the light of day.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/big-chicken-chronicles-public-health-dangers-using-antibiotics-farming?mode=topic&context=60 (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/big-chicken-chronicles-public-health-dangers-using-antibiotics-farming?mode=topic&context=60)

Title: ‘Big Chicken’ chronicles the public health dangers of using antibiotics in farming
Post by: Suppressed on December 07, 2017, 02:33:03 pm

‘Big Chicken’ chronicles the public health dangers of using antibiotics in farming
Efforts to raise bigger birds unwittingly spawned drug resistance in bacteria
BY CORI VANCHIERI 8:00AM, SEPTEMBER 17, 2017