Four of the country’s major chicken producers say they have drastically reduced the amount of antibiotics they use in their birds, and they’re providing data to prove it. Host Steve Curwood speaks to Karen Florini of the advocacy group Environmental Defense about the struggle to get antibiotics out of U.S. factory farming practices.
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