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

Mayor 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, Marion.

Thank you for having me.

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

treaties 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 motivated 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 which I think for most people

is really kind of an unappreciated health threat. I mean in the United States every year.

23,000 people die of drug resistant infections. 2 million

are made sick enough to go to a doctor or seek help at a hospital and globally the

deaths per year may maybe 700,000 predicted to go up into the millions

in a fairly short period of time. So I was investigating that. When I was trying to

tell the story of the rise of antibiotic resistance kind of through the

biography of one organism. So I was reading a lot of scientific papers and looking at a lot of

international statistics and I ran across a statistic that really kind of

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