Despite the title of my blog, I’m not a carnivore. I’m an omnivore. Or am I? According to my Random House Webster’s Dictionary, an “omnivore” is “someone or something that is omnivorous.” Duh. Next reference, please. Omnivorous (om niv’ər əs), adj. feeding on both animals and plants – Check. eating all kinds of foods indiscriminately … Read more
The timing was dead-on. Just as I walked past the table, the woman said, “My rule is, ‘I’ll only eat it if I could kill it.’ And I could definitely kill one of those.” I left the restaurant chuckling. I was thinking how the line echoed one of my reasons for taking up hunting: to … Read more
Dear Readers: You’ve been very tolerant. For months now—in email subscriptions, in RSS readers, and on my website—I have been subjecting you to the unpalatable blandness of the blog title People. Animals. Nature. Yet there has been nary a peep of protest. The affront to your good taste is, I hope, at an end. Next … Read more
When I was a vegetarian, I had no clue why modern people hunted. Now that I hunt, I still puzzle over it. Every hunter has his or her own reasons, of course. I wonder mostly about my own, and even there it’s often hard to lay claim to certainty. Of two things, though, I feel … Read more
Smeared with blood and deer hair, the rubber gloves had been tossed by the roadside. Next to them lay a chunk of guts. The trash couldn’t be missed by anyone who parked at the hiking trail access the hunters had used. By then I’d stopped being surprised. In only my second year as a hunter, … Read more
The man called about buying some rabbit. My friend Lila—ex-vegetarian and present-day purveyor of fine, homegrown meats—welcomed him to stop by the house late in the day. The rabbit would be cool by then. “You mean it’s still alive right now?” It was. And the caller, perhaps suddenly imagining Thumper hopping happily about, decided not … Read more