Meet Your Meat

What You Ought to Know About What You’re About to Eat

Visit your local supermarket and an array of packages of shrink-wrapped meat glints from refrigerated cases. Meat in America is typically cheap and plentiful, delivered to your plate through an efficient, well-organized process. But as you tuck into your ribeye, what should you know about the protein you’re about to eat? In advance of the Zócalo event, “Is Factory Farming Destroying Rural America?”, we asked five carnivores what one fact they would want to share with Americans about the meat on their dinner tables.