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How Do You Know Which Chicken to Buy? This Kickstarter Might Help.

May 31, 2013 By Maryn Leave a Comment

 

There’s a project I’ve been watching on Kickstarter and I’m a little surprised it hasn’t gotten more traction, so I thought I’d call it out. TL;DR: You know those wallet cards and apps that help you make good choices about buying seafood: what’s endangered, what’s overfished, what’s responsible to eat? This effort, BuyingPoultry.com, hopes to do the same for chicken — but it’s only halfway to its goal.

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: agriculture, animals, antibiotics, chicken, Kickstarter, NARMS, poultry, Resistance, Science Blogs

Project Update: Resistance (The Film) Has A Kickstarter

February 14, 2013 By Maryn Leave a Comment

About a year ago, I told you about an indie effort to put together a superbug documentary called Resistance. The filmmakers, Ernie Park and Michael Graziano (who made the excellent documentary Lunch Line about school lunch programs), have been traveling around the world since then, meeting victims of antibiotic resistance and talking to health care professionals and researchers about superbugs’ inexorable advance.

And now they are in their last stretch, and — as you do these days — they have a Kickstarter, with 35 days to go.

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: antibiotics, Film, Kickstarter, Resistance, Science Blogs

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