“Agribusiness’s headlong quest to put “a chicken in every pot” has come at a tremendous cost: Feeding modern medicine’s most valuable antibiotics to healthy farm animals has made these wonder drugs impotent, resulting in thousands on once-preventable human deaths each year. Through solid research and compelling narration, McKenna tells the story of how we allowed this to happen and points to ways to stop the unfolding catastrophe–before it’s too late.”
