When I was in Ontario covering this month’s cover story, my family and I had the chance to go to the Canadian Exposition in Toronto. It was the equivalent of a super-sized state fair, complete with rides and a building full of some of the unhealthiest yet tastiest food around.
One of my favorite (or favourite, since it was in Canada) exhibits there was The Farm, which featured everything from sheep to cows, turkeys to honey bees. If an animal is an integral part of our food chain, it was there. This was nothing like the petting zoos that you see at zoos. I don’t have a problem with petting zoos, mind you. My girls love them; they just tend to create the image that farm animals exist solely to be petted and brushed by visiting children.