I completely agree with your comment about selection for working class people working in the meat industry. Often, it's not what they would choose. I have frie

I completely agree with your comment about selection for working class people working in the meat industry. Often, it's not what they would choose. I have friends who grew up in the Midwest US where the largest employer (easily half the population) was a meat packing plant. For many in highschool it was perceived that "the meat" was the only choice for those who remained in town (e.g. didn't leave for college). At the same time, I disagree with your other point. Although, I've never really known anyone who liked the industrially mechanized meat industry, I do know individuals who enjoy raising and eating those animals. I've raised chickens for eggs... other family eat the pullets. Friends raise pigs, and other friend's kids enjoy raising pigs and cattle. My group of friends enjoy buying buying meat from them and their friends, exactly because we know where it came from. I know hunters for both deer and pheasant. I know many fishermen. What I don't know are people who want to know that the food they eat (including vegetable) was industrially farmed without care or concern. Whether it's tasteless heavily fertilized veggies, herbicided soy, fumigated strawberries, or hundred carcass ground beef, it's disturbing. The distance of packaged food is welcome then. Although, I also know some people who would refuse most preprocessed food (e.g. cooked, prepared, packaged), unless it was from a friend or acquaintance.