Maryn McKenna (Poynter Fellow), “Farming, Antibiotics and the Future of Meat” (Chewing the Fat)

Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health and food policy. She is a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and the author of the new book Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats, named a Best Science Book of 2017 by Amazon and Smithsonian Magazine and a Best Food Book of 2017 by Civil Eats. Sponsored by the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, the Animal Law Speaker Series, and the Yale Sustainable Food Program.