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January 26, 2025
- Walking through the meat aisle of the supermarket, we’re given the illusion of nearly unlimited choice.
- But here’s the thing: while it may seem like grocery stores sell every type of meat under the sun, they don’t. In fact, when it comes to meat from land animals, they typically only sell one very particular type of meat: meat produced using industrial agriculture. Wild and pastured meats are notably absent from the shelves.
- The prevalence of industrially produced meat is a recent phenomenon. For roughly the first 96.67% of our species’ history, meat always came from wild animals. For the next 3.3%, meat usually came from animals raised using traditional animal husbandry practices. For just the last .03% of our existence—only about 80 years—meat from land animals in the U.S. has come largely from Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), also known as factory farms.