Burn House Publishing asked Megan Allen:

What kind of research did you do for The Meat Hunter?

Megan Allen Not much research was necessary when I sat down to write as I’ve been exploring this topic for a long time just out of passion and interest. I’ve interacted with many people who raise livestock for food over the years. Usually when I’m bribing them to give me their animals. And I always ask what it was like when they first sent away an animal for slaughter. Their answers are always reliably the same. They were very young and their parents had given them a pig or cow to raise until it was time. They’ll say things like “it was hard the first time, but then you realize that’s just the way things are.” They become desensitized, hardened, and the little child who would have once been absolutely horrified at the execution of an animal has been pushed aside and forgotten. Humans are dangerously expert at adapting to whatever role society places them in.

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