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WHITE OAK PASTURES HOSTS BOOK RELEASE PARTY FOR
MARYN MCKENNA’S
BIG CHICKEN ON NOV. 15 AT MILLER
UNION IN ATLANTA
Public Health Journalist and Author Chronicles
Industrial Farming’s Role in Antibiotic Resistance Crisis and Identifies Bluffton, Georgia, Farm’s Practices as Route to
Safer, Healthier Poultry Industry
The party takes place on Miller Union’s patio from 5 to 7 p.m., and McKenna will be in attendance to sign books and speak with guests. Tickets to the event are available online for $30 per person, which includes a copy of the book, wine and hors d’oeuvres from chef Steven Satterfield featuring White Oak Pastures poultry. Miller Union is located at 999 Brady Avenue, NW. For more information, call 678-733-8550 or visit millerunion.com.
The topic of McKenna’s book is one that hits close to home for Harris and his fifth-generation family farm in Bluffton, Georgia, which is well-known for its closed-loop farming practices and zero-waste protocol that benefits the land, the animals and the consumers it serves. White Oak Pastures has been raising and slaughtering pastured poultry in a humane, sustainable manner since 2009 as part of the farm’s Serengeti Rotational Grazing Model, which encourages a natural fertilization process and keeps parasites from spreading. Unlike industrial farming systems, this system allows the animal to express its natural instincts of roaming while spreading its own manure, which in turn reduces environmental damage. White Oak Pastures also has an on-farm USDA-inspected poultry abattoir, where they process the five species of poultry raised on the farm.
While shining a light on today’s mass food-processing practices and their profound influence on our lives and health, McKenna also provides Big Chicken readers with hope for a healthier future via farmers like Harris who promote biodiversity and produce great-tasting, antibiotic-free chicken. It is for this reason that Miller Union and several other restaurants throughout the Southeast choose to serve White Oak Pastures’ products; the farm provides Global Animal Partnership Step 5+ Certified Humane and Animal Welfare Approved poultry that customers can feel good about eating.
About Big Chicken
In this eye-opening exposé, 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. For additional information, visit penguinrandomhouse.com.
About Maryn McKenna
Maryn McKenna is a journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health and food policy. She has reported from epidemics and disasters, and farms and food production sites, on most of the continents, including a field hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, a Thai village erased by the Indian Ocean tsunami, a bird-testing unit on the front lines of West Nile virus, an Arctic graveyard of the victims of the 1918 flu, an AIDS treatment center in Yunnan, a polio-eradication team in India, breweries in France, a “Matrix for chickens” in the Netherlands, and the Midwestern farms devastated by the 2015 epidemic of avian flu. She writes about science and food for National Geographic and for magazines and websites in the United States and Europe, including The New York Times Magazine, NPR, Newsweek, Vice, FiveThirtyEight, Wired, Scientific American, Slate, Modern Farmer, Nature, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. She is the author of the award-winning books SUPERBUG and BEATING BACK THE DEVIL: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Her new book — BIG CHICKEN: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats — was published in the United States in September 2017 and will be published in the United Kingdom in February 2018. Maryn is a Senior Fellow of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and a frequent radio guest. Her 2015 TED talk, "What do we do when antibiotics don't work anymore?,” has been viewed more than 1.4 million times.
About White Oak Pastures
White Oak Pastures is a multigenerational, family-owned farm committed to the principles of sustainability and stewardship by raising five red meat (cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits and hogs) and five poultry (chickens, turkeys, guineas, ducks and geese) species. It is one of the only farms in the nation that humanely hand-butchers both red meat and poultry species on site under USDA inspection. This takes place in White Oak Pastures’ own abattoirs designed by Dr. Temple Grandin. The fifth-generation farm, led by owner Will Harris, has operated continuously on the same land in Southwest Georgia for more than 150 years. White Oak Pastures cooperates with nature to produce artisan products that are healthy, safe and nutritious. Care is given to ensure that all production practices are economically practical, ecologically sustainable and that the animals are always treated humanely. White Oak Pastures never falters in conducting business in an honorable manner, for the sake of the animals, the land and the people eating the products. The farm also offers on-site lodging and dining.
Harris and White Oak Pastures have received the following awards for setting farming standards, contributing to the restaurant industry and being dedicated to the sustainability of organic farming in Georgia: Savory Global Network Hub, 2016 Sustainable Land Stewardship Award from Georgia Organics, 2014’s Most Respected Business Person of the Year by Georgia Trend Magazine, 2013 Swisher Sunbelt Farmer of the Year, 2012 American Treasures Award from MADE: In America, 2012 Centennial Family Award, 2012 Distinguished Conservationist, 2012 LDEI Green Ribbon Recipient, 2011 Georgia’s Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration, 2011 Georgia Restaurant Association’s Innovator Award and Will Harris inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Farmers, Artisans and Chefs.
White Oak Pastures also holds several certifications including: Certified Naturally Grown, Certified Grassfed by the American Grassfed Association, Certified Humane by the Humane Farm Animal Care, Animal Welfare Approved by Animal Welfare Institute, Global Animal Partnership, Master Cattleman by the University of Georgia, Certified Organic by Georgia Crop Improvement Association and Good Management Practices approved by Silliker, Inc.
White Oak Pastures products can be purchased at more than 1,000 Publix supermarkets throughout the Southeast and at Whole Foods Market locations from Miami to Princeton, New Jersey. The beef is distributed by Kelly's Foods, Buckhead Beef, Sysco Gulf Coast, US Foods, Albert’s Organics or directly from White Oak Pastures. Customers can also place orders online. White Oak Pastures is located at 22775 Highway 27 in Bluffton, Georgia. For more information, call (229) 641-2081 or visit whiteoakpastures.com.
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