Today the class visited a slaughterhouse near Florence.
Here are some comments from one of the students:
“Although it is one of the smaller slaughterhouses around Florence, this slaughterhouse processes highly-ranked cattle grown in ranches nearby.
Today, we were lucky we got to see wild boar meat after 3 days of aging in a refrigerator. We learned a lot about how fresh meats are managed before reaching to the consumers in Italy, where the fresh meat sanitation rules and regulations are the strictest in Europe.
It was such a valuable visit to recognize that any over-the-counter meat must be taken in with the appreciation to having lives of living creatures.”