EP 127. YOU'RE GOING TO DIE OF BIRD FLU

You probably eat chicken, right? You might even be eating some right now. But how did they go from scrawny fowl, scratching around in the wild, to the industrial commodity that they are now? Maryn McKenna is an American author and journalist whose work has been featured in the New York Times magazine, the Atlantic, NPR, Scientific American, The Guardian and more. Her most recent book is Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. Maryn and Josh sat down to talk about the “invention” of the chicken, the emergence of Super Bugs, and why a viral pandemic will kill us all. Happy Days! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices