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Big Chicken
- The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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In this eye-opening expose, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributor 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.
What you eat matters - for your health, for the environment, and for future generations. In this riveting investigative narrative, McKenna dives deep into the world of modern agriculture by way of chicken: from the farm where it's raised directly to your dinner table. Consumed more than any other meat in the United States, chicken is emblematic of today's mass food-processing practices and their profound influence on our lives and health. Tracing its meteoric rise from scarce treat to ubiquitous global commodity, McKenna reveals the astounding role of antibiotics in industrial farming, documenting how and why "wonder drugs" revolutionized the way the world eats - and not necessarily for the better. Rich with scientific, historical, and cultural insights, this spellbinding cautionary tale shines a light on one of America's favorite foods - and teaches us the way to safer, healthier eating for ourselves and our children.
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"In this well-written exposé, McKenna (Superbug) dissects the controversy of the routine use of antibiotics to fatten chicken, which has led to the rise of drug-resistant bacteria.... Throughout, McKenna offers spot-on commentary on the dangerous additives in chickens and concludes on a relatively hopeful note." (Publishers Weekly)
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Crystals and all - great book
- De Topherwayne en 02-22-20
De: Daphne Miller MD
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Poison Spring
- The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
- De: E. G. Vallianatos, McKay Jenkins
- Narrado por: Michael McConnahie
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic substances dumped into the environment every day, not just in the US but around the world.
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A Frightening Wake Up Call!
- De Exec. Chef 'Special K' en 07-02-14
De: E. G. Vallianatos, y otros
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Mycophilia
- Revelations From the Weird World of Mushrooms
- De: Eugenia Bone
- Narrado por: Aimee Jolson
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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In Mycophilia, accomplished food writer and cookbook author Eugenia Bone examines the role of fungi as exotic delicacy, curative, poison, and hallucinogen, and ultimately discovers that a greater understanding of fungi is key to facing many challenges of the 21st century.
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Absolutely awful, insufferable, racist author
- De Rs 🦇 en 11-25-19
De: Eugenia Bone
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The Humane Economy
- How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals
- De: Wayne Pacelle
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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A major new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a practical road map for how we can use the marketplace to promote the welfare of all living creatures from the renowned animal-rights advocate Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and New York Times best-selling author of The Bond.
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For all lovers of animals--even the most sensitive
- De monique en 05-01-16
De: Wayne Pacelle
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Animal, Vegetable, Junk
- A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
- De: Mark Bittman
- Narrado por: Mark Bittman
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads and atomic bombs, settlers and stock markets. But behind it all, there is an even more fundamental driver: Food. In Animal, Vegetable, Junk, trusted food authority Mark Bittman offers a panoramic view of how the frenzy for food has driven human history to some of its most catastrophic moments.
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Mostly Junk
- De Daniel Ducat en 05-22-21
De: Mark Bittman
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Denialism
- How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
- De: Michael Specter
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter has twice won the Global Health Council’s Excellence in Media Award, as well as the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In Denialism, he fervently argues that people are turning away from new technologies and engaging in a kind of magical thinking that is hindering scientific progress.
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A compelling read
- De S en 05-17-11
De: Michael Specter
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Lesser Beasts
- A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
- De: Mark Essig
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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As historian Mark Essig reveals in Lesser Beasts, swine have such a bad reputation for precisely the same reasons they are so valuable as a source of food: they are intelligent, self-sufficient, and omnivorous. What's more, he argues, we ignore our historic partnership with these astonishing animals at our peril.
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Virtuous Carnivors?
- De David en 04-14-16
De: Mark Essig
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Fast Food Nation
- The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
- De: Eric Schlosser
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.
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Uncritical alarmist rant
- De Mark Freeman en 12-23-03
De: Eric Schlosser
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Missing Microbes
- How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
- De: Martin J. Blaser
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances-antibiotics-threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes with terrible health consequences.
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Very enlightening and information well supported
- De James en 05-03-15
De: Martin J. Blaser
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Pandemic
- Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
- De: Sonia Shah
- Narrado por: Sonia Shah
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera - one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens - and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs.
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You will probably enjoy "Spillover" more
- De serine en 03-01-16
De: Sonia Shah
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Manual for Survival
- A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
- De: Kate Brown
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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After 1991, international organizations from the Red Cross to Greenpeace sought to help the victims, yet found themselves stymied by post-Soviet political circumstances they did not understand. International diplomats and scientists allied to the nuclear industry evaded or denied the fact of a wide-scale public health disaster caused by radiation exposure. Efforts to spin the story about Chernobyl were largely successful; the official death toll ranges between 31 and 54 people. In reality, radiation exposure from the disaster caused between 35,000 and 150,000 deaths in Ukraine alone.
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Must read this timely book
- De Amazon Customer en 03-26-22
De: Kate Brown
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The Fever
- Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
- De: Sonia Shah
- Narrado por: Maha Chehlaoui
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names - and opened their pocketbooks - in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren’t we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we’ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them?
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Solid but not amazing account of malaria
- De S. Yates en 04-11-16
De: Sonia Shah
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Fruitless Fall
- The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
- De: Rowan Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Rowell Gormon
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched 30 billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear. The remaining pollinators, essential to the cultivation of a third of American crops, are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse.
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Compulsory Reading - Share with Everyone!
- De Charles Koenen en 04-12-20
De: Rowan Jacobsen
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The Unhealthy Truth
- One Mother's Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America's Food Supply - and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself
- De: Robyn O'Brien, Rachel Kranz
- Narrado por: Traci Odom
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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Robyn O'Brien is not the most likely candidate for an anti-establishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food - until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic reaction to eggs, and everything changed.
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Transparency at its best
- De N_Kaur_Atl en 09-26-17
De: Robyn O'Brien, y otros
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- Crystal Forbes
- 06-13-19
Xe Sands is a great narrator!
Good book, delightful listen! Book was well researched and didn’t try to push the agricultural agenda one way or the other. Successful farms were profiled and I don’t think the author out any excessive embellishments on the narrative (as so happens in writing about rural America and agriculture in general).
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- StBarth
- 06-24-23
Important Reading for all foodies.
Much more interesting than I thought it would be. A few political figures applauded I disagree about. And one observation about the climate that diminished an otherwise very well presented topic.
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- Maurice Goulding
- 09-06-21
MUST READ, for carnivores and vegetarians alike
Somehow the author keeps this book completely entertaining while dropping important facts into every story. This is a story that will forever open your eyes to how far greed has gone to poison our food supply.
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- Dillyeo
- 08-17-23
best book on food i have listened to ever
This is great and explains pandemics can actually have more to do with the way we raise and treat animals with cruel conditions we force them to live. They are crowded and sick and vaccines and antibiotics to artificially make them live in cruel conditions has resulted in super bacteria that crosses over to humans.
I think this could also be applied to viruses crossing over with excessive vaccine use. Basically, we can’t compete with nature: plants and probiotics evolve at the same rate as super bacteria and viruses, and companies can’t patent or compete with nature fast enough. Let’s respect our earth and work with it instead of against it. And China happens to uses the most antibiotics and probably vaccines now on meat.. maybe covid was a result of the meat industry, not created in a super lab but studied in a lab as it already existed in the animals. We are all connected weather we want to believe it or now. Great read, entertaining and informative.
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