The Anti-Ark

I stumbled upon this article on National Geographic's website and it really disturbed me. It describes the  business of shipping 8,000 sheep, and 855camels across the Red Sea to the Middle East for slaughter. Unfortunately, we are all aware of how our meat is slaughter in the U.S. and if anyone has seen the movie Food Inc, it holds an awful memory at the pit of your stomach. This idea of having to ship livestock across the ocean on the oversize "animal slave ships" just seems insane to me. However, I also began to realize the underlying message, the Middle East has lost their ability to farm the large amounts of livestock needed to sustain the population. This got me thinking, if this can happen to smaller countries in the Middle East, how much longer until the U.S abuses it's ability to properly farm live stock and has to revert to shipping across oceans. While this may be a stretch from current reality, I found this article extremely frighting and it left me a lot of "What If's"  Link