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How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats - with Maryn McKenna

Doing Good Through Food - June 17, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Our guest this week is with Maryn McKenna - an award winning independent journalist and an author who specialises in public health, global health and food policy. Maryn is a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University - and the author of ...

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Maryn McKenna

Town Hall Seattle Science Series - February 12, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
We often take for granted the ubiquity of chicken in the American diet. Acclaimed journalist Maryn McKenna bypassed our familiarity with a fascinating history of chicken in her book Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Changed Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats...

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Investigative Journalist Maryn McKenna on Exposing the Chicken Industry

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health - January 31, 2018 15:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 265 ratings
Maryn McKenna is an investigative journalist and senior fellow for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University who has written a number of health-related books. Her latest, “Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats,” e...

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Sustainable Dish Episode 56: Big Chicken with Maryn McKenna

Sustainable Dish Podcast - January 23, 2018 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 226 ratings
On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast I speak with Maryn McKenna, author of the Big Chicken, about antibiotic use in chickens and how that contributes to the creation of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

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Big Chicken with Maryn McKenna & Grief with Paula Shaw

Moments with Marianne - November 06, 2017 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Big Chicken with Maryn McKenna Maryn McKenna is a journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health and food policy. She has reported from epidemics and disasters, and farms and food production sites, on most of the continents, including a field hospital in New Orleans during...

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Maryn McKenna's <i>Big Chicken,</i> Part 1

Science Talk - October 17, 2017 23:55 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 579 ratings
Award-winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. (Part 1 of 2)

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Episode 128: Antibiotics with Maryn McKenna

What Doesn't Kill You - October 13, 2014 19:35 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratings
Antibiotic use in livestock is a topic that has been discussed many times on Heritage Radio Network, but this week on What Doesn’t Kill You, journalist, author and blogger Maryn McKenna explains what’s going on in a way that should make it clear for everybody. Maryn McKenna is an independent jou...

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11 Maryn McKenna - Our Scary Post-Antibiotic Future

Inquiring Minds - December 06, 2013 01:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 821 ratings
It's flu season. And we're all about to crisscross the country to exchange hugs, kisses and germs. We're going to get sick. And when we do, many of us will run to our doctors and, hoping to get better, demand antibiotics. And that's the problem: Antibiotics don't cure the flu (which is viral, no...