The ‘sport’ of hunting: Why I don’t call it that
In a world like ours, where discussions of hunting are already full of pitfalls and confusions, “sport” and “recreation” only get in the way.
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Eating and caring: The lines we draw
I think everyone holds some version of the same conceptual category: “Fellow creatures about whom I care too much to eat.”
Mindful carnivores here, there, and everywhere
The Mindful Carnivore has been spotted in the wild.
Food in an ideal world
What would your ideal, sustainable world look like?
An open letter to food co-ops
Why don’t food co-ops start selling hunting and fishing licenses?
Meat and meaning (or, Hunting on the brain)
The past few months have been crazy. I had the final six chapters of my book to draft. And I had a thesis to write.
The good and the slobby: Hunting, logging, living
Everyone I know—hunter or non-hunter—detests slob-hunting: Animals wounded carelessly or maliciously. Bodies and body parts dumped along roadsides. Shots fired at unidentified flashes of movement. And so on. We agree that such behavior is callous and wasteful, disrespectful and dangerous. But why should it surprise us? Recently, while revising a chapter for my book, I … Read more