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Journalist Maryn McKenna on the rise of ‘Big Chicken’ — and our current antibiotic crisis

Science

Everyone gets chicken, and the chicken get antibiotics.

A pig.

How industrial hog farms can influence human flu epidemics

Health
Chickens and other livestock grown without the use of antibiotics are a small but growing part of the U.S. market. Perdue is now the largest producer of antibiotic-free chicken in the country, and other big players in the food industry are following the l

Consumers are demanding antibiotic-free meat, and Big Food is starting to listen

Environment
Chickens and other livestock grown without the use of antibiotics are a small but growing part of the U.S. market. Perdue is now the largest producer of antibiotic-free chicken in the country, and other big players in the food industry are following the l

Consumers are demanding antibiotic-free meat, and Big Food is starting to listen

Environment

China’s big hog farms pose a big antibiotic resistance risk

Environment

Natural Chickens

The country’s biggest poultry producers say they have stopped routinely feeding antibiotics to birds.

The World

Factory Farm Rules

Reaction continues to pour in following the announcement of new EPA rules governing factory farms. Tamara Keith from member station KQED reports that some say they won’t address the problem of manure lagoons.

The World

Documentary highlights animal abuses on factory farms

Global Politics

A vegan, Pete worked undercover at a farm in Ohio and took footage of how farm animals are treated for the new HBO documentary, ‘Death on a Factory Farm.’ He joins The Takeaway to talk about his experience.