![]() ![]() I watched hundreds of Retrievers and Terriers and Hounds get sold to the highest bidders, many of them owners of large-scale commercial breeding farms (or, to use the more commonly applied term, puppy mills). Not long after that day, I found myself sitting at the top of the bleachers inside a barn where America’s biggest legal dog auction is regularly held. Somehow, even through my super-fandom of books including Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, it was only in that moment that I truly understood the supermarket meat aisle is based not on food but instead on the smartly marketed products of a global food-producing industry. Endless packages of chops and ribs and wings and thighs-all of it suddenly appeared to me not as food, but instead as a flowing river of neatly packaged cash. The moment felt a bit like vertigo, or as if I’d been sucked into The Matrix. When I looked down the aisle again, it seemed different, almost as if I were viewing it through a fisheye lens. The buffalo label screamed “all natural,” too, right above a photograph of a big, open, grassy plain full of sunshine and fresh air, where the buffalo ostensibly roamed while the deer and the antelope played. They were a new offering, and they seemed as exotic as wildebeest nex t to the chicken breasts and sausage patties. I was standing in the meat department at the grocery store, a package of ground turkey in one hand and my smartphone’s Google app in the other, struggling to determine whether the free-range, nobody-was-cruel-in-the-making-of-this-food-product label was actually a cover-up to get my money into the coffers of some multinational factory farm, when I glanced up and saw buffalo steaks. “Money will buy a pretty good dog, but itīuffalo steaks. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MCSPCA) Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)įédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) ![]()
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