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Over The Past Century, New Farming Methods, Feed Additives, And Social And Economic Structures Have Radically Transformed Agriculture Around The Globe, Often At The Expense Of Human Health. In Chickenizing Farms And Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld Reveals The Unsafe World Of Chickenization - Big Agriculture's Top-down, Contract-based Factory Farming System - And Its Negative Consequences For Workers, Consumers, And The Environment. Drawing On Her Deep Knowledge Of And Experience In Environmental Engineering And Toxicology, Silbergeld Examines The Complex History Of The Modern Industrial Food Animal Production Industry And Describes The Widespread Effects Of Arthur Perdue’s Remarkable Agricultural Innovations, Which Were So Important That The Us Department Of Agriculture Uses The Term Chickenization To Cover The Transformation Of All Farm Animal Production.^ Silbergeld Tells The Real Story Of How Antibiotics Were First Introduced Into Animal Feeds In The 1940s, Which Has Led To The Emergence Of Multi-drug-resistant Pathogens, Such As Mrsa. Along The Way, She Talks With Poultry Growers, Farmers, And Slaughterhouse Workers On The Front Lines Of Exposure, Moving From The Chesapeake Bay Penin

Author

Ellen K Silbergeld; Project Muse

Publisher

Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421420301

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Medicine