I’ve raised pigs, chickens, cattle and turkeys in northeast Oklahoma for nine years. You won’t find hog barns or chicken houses at Prairie Creek Farms. In fact, you won’t find much concrete at all.
Our critters live as naturally as possible. Our cattle graze and seek shade under the oak trees in the hot afternoons. Our pigs give birth in the woods and come down the hill for supper during the cool evenings. Our chickens follow the herbivores looking for grasshoppers or earthworms.
Small farms like ours produce just 4% of all meat sold in the United States. The other 96% comes from a few massive corporations.
“Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in their own profits and not the well-being of the animals they