What makes this story for me was the reporting. I love all the detail I was able to include, and I can’t thank Ryan Crowe enough for allowing me to spend a morning wandering around his operation, asking questions and taking notes.
The splintered plywood sign with “Retail Meat Sale” hand painted in red and black capitals. The black arrow underneath pointing up the sidewalk. The squat brick building.
Every Friday, just off College Station road, a flurry of skepticism and confusion is the most likely reaction from onlookers who don’t know that it’s all part of UGA’s Meat Science Technology Center Store. But the funny thing about being in the store is the way everyone’s eyes skim right over all the things that make the retail space not a store. The uphill corridor that leads to classrooms. The processing area clearly visible through the freezer doors. The chicken wire-topped freezer case covered with warnings printed on colored paper: “Experimental Study,” “NOT for Human Consumption,” and “Product in this case is NOT for sale.”
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