Read the excerpt from The Call of the Wild.

A poor substitute for food was this hide, just as it had been stripped from the starved horses of the cattlemen six months back. In its frozen state it was more like strips of galvanized iron, and when a dog wrestled it into his stomach it thawed into thin and innutritious leathery strings and into a mass of short hair, irritating and indigestible.

What does the descriptive language in this passage help readers to visualize?

how dry and tough the meat is
how freezing the weather is
how thin and sick the horses are
how hungry the cattlemen are