A couple of years ago, I asked a butcher for a bone to give to my dog. She handed over a huge bone in an airless plastic pouch. There was still blood in it. When I got home, I noticed the label, there was a date.
It had been born 10 months earlier
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker