The Return of the Hunt: EAT Magazine May 2012

Hunting still needs some good PR, but there’s a growing number of hunters who see it less as a sport and more as a sustainable food source.

Wild game meat might be the ultimate inconvenience food. Consider the process: up well before the crack of dawn, then the hours or days spent in the field or on a mountain slope, or knee deep in frigid water at the edge of a raging stream, waiting patiently for the elusive prey, whether fish, fowl or fur. Then, once spotted, a splitsecond chance to bring it down cleanly and quickly—there are no second acts in the hunting game. Follow that with the brutally unpleasant but necessary task of cleaning and gutting the animal, then hauling the carcass, which can weigh as much as several hundred pounds, out of the wilderness and back home. All for the sake of a freezer full of meat. And possibly an earful of abuse from your vegan neighbour.

So why would anyone do all that, when a pound of hamburger from your local supermarket gives you change back from a five dollar bill?…

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