Too often, conversations about diet get short-circuited by the certainty and intolerance characteristic of fundamentalism.
Tag: food
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.
Hunting: The encyclopedia entry
Suppose you knew someone who was asked to write an encyclopedia entry.
You never know
I once knew a man who had a small horizontal sign above his front door frame, up against the ceiling. If you looked up, you saw it just before you stepped outside: “You never know.” The more time I spend in the woods, the more sense the motto makes.
“Natural causes”: Life and death, food and fantasy
What is so compelling about the idea of life lasting until an organism gives up the ghost of its own accord?
Animals through a hunter’s eyes: Not just meat
The second part of the question was more focused: “Now, when you see deer, do you see meat on the hoof?”
Eating strangers, Eating friends
Emotionally speaking, what are the differences between hunting wild animals and slaughtering domestic ones?