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b'(Repeat) Why did the chicken take antibiotics?\\xa0To fatten it up and prevent bacterial infection. As a result, industrial farms have become superbug factories, threatening our life-saving antibiotics.\\nFind out how our wonder drugs became bird feed, and how antibiotic resistant bugs bred on the farm end up on your dinner plate.\\xa0A journalist tells the story of the 1950s fad of \\u201cacronizing\\u201d poultry; the act of dipping it in an antibiotic bath so it can sit longer on a refrigerator shelf.\\nPlus, some ways we can avoid a post-antibiotic era. The steps one farm took to make their chickens antibiotic free\\u2026 and resurrecting an old therapy: enlisting viruses to target and destroy multi-drug resistant bacteria.\\xa0Set your \\u201cphages\\u201d to stun.\\xa0\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nMaryn McKenna\\xa0-\\xa0Investigative journalist who specializes in public health and food policy. Author of \\u201cBig Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats.\\u201d\\n\\n\\nRyland Young\\xa0-\\xa0Biochemist, head of the Center for Phage Technology at Texas A&M University.\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'