Your Letters: Eating What You Shoot
We received many comments about last week's essay by Weekend Edition food commentator Bonny Wolf. She had recently attended a dinner where wild game was served. Host Liane Hansen reads some listeners' responses to that story and more.
LIANE HANSEN, Host:
How jarring it was to wake up to Ms. Wolf extolling the virtues of hunting, writes Susan Muller of Sacramento, California. It disgusted me to hear her lauding the kindly hunters who twinge right before they kill something. I lived in the deep woods for years and chose to feed sickly and starving fawn orphans, probably made so by one of those hunters with the twinge.
M: Thanks so much for this piece. As a hunter, I can confirm the fleeting moment of sadness at the kill and the moral necessity to eat what you kill. Killing an animal solely for sport or for a trophy is repugnant to real hunters. I'm a member of the fastest growing hunter population - women - and enjoy my time in the field as a way to reconnect with nature and with my primal self.
HANSEN: And there were several comments about this question Jacki posed to Amy Greene, the author of Appalachia-based novel "Bloodroot."
JACKI LYDEN: Were you worried, Amy Greene, as you were writing this novel - people don't e-mail here, it goes into the present; they don't drink lattes - were you worried that such a time-out-of-mind place that you've created just might not survive, you know, the real world, where people are reading on the subway on their Kindles?
HANSEN: Judith Schmidt of Ann Arbor, Michigan had this response:
M: I thank Ms. Lyden for the review of the book, but I'm appalled at her apparent ignorance of life outside the big city. What a provincial attitude. I'm not from Appalachia, but it's the kind of thing that gets NPR parodied and otherwise skewered.
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