I was just thinking of this kind of thing this morning after reading an article wherein the author said she was motivated to go hunting because of her partner’s efforts “to live a cleaner and more sustainable life” and then talked about getting outfitted in a new wardrobe of camo, getting a rifle, spending hours at the range, taking a week off from work, driving hours to get to the management unit, and then driving ATVs for hours to get to where the game was, before finally taking an animal. Which turns into something like 100 lbs maybe 150 lbs of meat in your utility-powered freezer? Now, I like the idea of hunting on many levels, but I don’t think you get to claim it’s cleaner and more sustainable unless you’ve really compared the embodied energy in your method vs a regional or global-market method where costs get lowered because of scale.
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