"In this eye-opening exposé, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributer Maryn McKenna documents how antibiotics transformed chicken from local delicacy to industrial commodity -- and human health threat -- uncovering the ways we can make America's favorite meat safer again." -- Amazon.com.

How chicken became essential -- Illness, and a bad year -- Better living through chemistry -- Meat for the price of bread -- Resistance begins -- Proving the problem -- How chicken became dangerous -- Epidemics as evidence -- The triumph of the hybrids The cost of contamination -- The unpredicted danger --How chicken changed -- The value of small -- Choosing cooperation -- The view from the barn -- The market speaks -- The past creates the future -- Epilogue