Loving Animals Is Complicated for a Meat-eater

The great bacon shortage ahead and why it’s a good thing

Susan Orlean
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5 min readAug 4, 2021

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My son with our herd of Black Angus

Beware, news stories are warning, this bacon-and-egg sandwich or these baby back ribs might be your last if you live in California. The reason? In 2018, California voters passed animal welfare laws that required chicken, veal, and pork sold in the state to be raised humanely by the beginning…

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Susan Orlean
GEN
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Staff writer, The New Yorker. Author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and more…Head of my very own Literati.com book club (join me!)