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/.
4. potatoes provided: Charles Mann, 1493 : Uncovering the New World Co-
lumbus Created (New York: Vintage, 0 ), Kindle edition, 09.
. mostly milk and potatoes: Ibid., .
6. But along with the guano: Ibid., 6.
7. famine claimed one million lives: Joseph O’Neill, The Irish Potato
Famine (Minneapolis, MN: Abdo Group, 009 ), 7.
8. “Suitcase farmers,”: Morris Cooke, Report of the Great Plains Drought
Area Committee (to the President), August 7 , 936 , Hathi Trust Digital Library,
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo. 3 9 40009339 6 ;view=up;seq=.
9. Total land cultivated: Ibid., 6.
0. In the Southern Plains: Andrew Smith, Food in America: The Past,
Present, and Future of Food, Farming, and the Family Meal, vol. (Santa Bar-
bara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 0 7 ), 3 – 36.
. some stage of erosion: Cooke, Report of the Great Plains Drought, .
. Farmers placed the blame: Zeynep Hansen and Gary Libecap, “Small
Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 930 s,” Journal of Political Econ-
omy , no. 3 ( 004 ): 66 – 94 , http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/~glibecap/DustBowl
JPE.pdf.
3. close the book on infectious disease: Bill Bryson, A Short History of
Nearly Everything (New York: Broadway Books 003 ), 3 ; James Surowiecki,
“No Profit, No Cure,” New Yorker, November , 00 , https://www.newyorker
.com/magazine/ 00 // 0 /no-profit-no-cure.
4. immunity to penicillin: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), “Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 0 3 ,” 0 3 , 8 ,
https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/pdf/ar-threats- 0 3 - 08 .pdf.
. adding antibiotics to livestock feed: Maureen Ogle, “Riots, Rage,
and Resistance: A Brief History of How Antibiotics Arrived on the Farm,”
Scientific American, September 3 , 0 3 , https://blogs.scientificamerican.com
/guest-blog/riots-rage-and-resistance-a-brief-history-of-how-antibiotics
-arrived-on-the-farm/.
6. promote growth is a mystery: Vikram Krishnasamy, Joachim Otte, and
Ellen Silbergeld, “Antimicrobial Use in Chinese Swine and Broiler Poultry
Production,” Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 4 , no. 7 ( 0 ): – 9 ,
http://www.aricjournal.com/content/pdf/s 37 6 - 0 - 00 0 -y.pdf.
7. bacteria thwarting the drugs: Ogle, “Riots, Rage and Resistance.”
8. FDA tried to rein in usage: Ibid.
9. 80 percent of all antibiotics consumed: Tracy Pham, “Drug Use Review,”
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), April , 0 , , http://www.fda.