When the subject of animal cruelty comes up, Canadians instinctively think of pets or wild animals being mistreated. The cows whose milk we take and who eventually become hamburger, the calves who are taken from their mothers and turned into veal, the birds whose eggs we eat and the birds who we turn into chicken nuggets and turkey…
Don LePan
Don LePan, founder of the publishing house Broadview Press, is the author of several academic books and of two novels—Animals (Esplanade Books, 2009) and Rising Stories (Press Forward, 2015).