The dog meat trade is defined as ‘snatching animals from the streets, stealing pets from backyards or buying them from owners.’ The horrors of animal trafficking do not go unnoticed in countries like the United States. Pictures of anguished dogs are plastered across humane websites calling for action. But to what extent is this issue present in areas with less visibility?

Free and reduced school lunches have existed for years. However, these benefits are becoming far less accessible to students. 

Before lockdown due to COVID in March of 2020, if you needed free lunch at school you had to apply for it. Within this application, you had to provide all incomes within your household, information about other assistance programs you partook in, and, in some instances, your ethnicity. After the lockdown ended and kids went back to school, things changed. Parents had lost their jobs and weren't able to work, rent was going up, family members were getting sick, and life was dramatically different for so many people. Because of these drastic changes, hundreds of thousands of kids in New York State did not have access to meals.