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We are pleased today to have with us an investigative journalist, Mary McKenna, who

has done loads of work in public health and has written three books in this area.

And she's actually a senior fellow for investigative journalism at Brandeis University.

And her latest book is Big Chicken, which I am confident is going to open your eyes to

many aspects of this industry that you were unaware of.

It certainly did for me.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today, Mary.

Thank you for having me.

So we're just delighted to be able to connect with you because your book is such a useful

treatise on the exploration of this really important topic and that many of us are so

unaware of on the whole history of how chicken is used as a primary food.

But before we go into those details, why don't you tell us what motivates you to write

a book on this topic?

Yeah, thanks for asking.

So I have written about public health and global health for most of my career as a journalist.

And about seven years ago, I got really interested in the problem of antibiotic resistance,

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