But until someone has traveled in these countries where the “animals are free” and see what miserable conditions they live in and how their life is in danger all the time from either poachers or habitat encroachment, disease, drought, volcanoes, flooding, these are all things that animals in the wild have to agree with. So being “in the wild”, isn’t strictly a piece of cake and the fact that the US, and I’m speaking of our zoos and in our area, we are no longer so much of an agricultural community in our working. We still produce just as much, but it’s because the people producing our food and our products are more efficient. So instead of it taking 50% of the population to feed everybody, we’re doing it with less than five. And the fact that people, some kids growing up now have no idea that a steak doesn’t come from the supermarket. Shrink are wrapped in a styrofoam bag with plastic over the top. They have no idea that you have to raise that cow or that hog or chicken in order for there to be those nice little meat portions in a packet, or they don’t realize when they’re eating the vegetables, how much work it is to plow and to plant seed and to weed, and then to harvest the product. And we take so many of these things for granted.
