When you get an enthusiastically appreciative email from a fellow vegan-turned-hunter on the opposite side of planet, you smile. When he sends you a thought-provoking article that echoes many of your own thoughts and feelings, you sit up and pay attention.
Postcard from a hiatus
I haven’t fallen off the planet. I hope you find some tasty morsels in the mixed bag to come.
A caretaker and a killer
For the future of wildlife conservation, it is crucial that we bridge the gaps between hunters and non-hunters.
Online at The Atlantic: “A Caretaker and a Killer.”
Sex, kills, and videotape*
Years ago, I would have found it utterly repulsive to watch video footage of a hunter killing an animal. Over the past decade, as a hunter, I have occasionally watched such scenes. I still don’t enjoy seeing them. The analogies I use to explain my discomfort are both imperfect.
Deer music, land music, sky music: A first drum
Months ago, I was going to write about making my first drum.
Dietary fundamentalism impairs sight and hearing
Too often, conversations about diet get short-circuited by the certainty and intolerance characteristic of fundamentalism.
Of the Earth: Eating and being
The greens and meat are made of all these things, all these places, and more. And so, too, are we, as we ingest them.