How Antibiotics Changed The Way We Eat

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 8, 2017

Award-winning journalist and author Maryn McKenna discusses her book Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. She reveals how antibiotics transformed chicken from local delicacy to industrial commodity, and how eating industrial chicken affects our health.

Maryn McKenna will appear in conversation with Helen Rosner of Eater at Caveat NYC (21 A Clinton St., between E.Houston and Stanton St.) on Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets start at $30.

Note: Jonathan Capehart guest-hosted this segment of "The Leonard Lopate Show."

 

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