The Birds and The Bugs

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Chicken is such a mainstay of the contemporary American dinner table that it seems hard to imagine that, just a century ago, it was rare and expensive. But over the course of the 20th century, both chickens and the chicken industry exploded in size. Much of that growth can be attributed to the miraculous properties of antibiotics, which were developed to fight human diseases but quickly began to be fed to farm animals in vast quantities. Journalist and author Maryn McKenna weaves these two intertwined tales together in her new book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. In this episode of Gastropod, she describes the consequences of decades spent feeding chicken antibiotics, in terms of chicken flavor, poultry well-being, and, most significantly, human health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Fox Creative.
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1:11.0	This chicken is uniquely delicious.
1:14.0	And at first, the first time I had it, I thought maybe it's uniquely delicious just because it's Paris,
1:19.0	and so everything is heightened.
1:21.0	It's a beautiful, bronzed, crispy skinned chicken that's been basted by the fat of the chickens above it,
1:28.0	and it's got pepper and thyme and salt, and the skin is like glass,
1:34.0	shatters when you bite into it.
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