My Grandparents, up until we moved when I was 11, tended a large garden full of various vegetables and other garden foods, along with rows of raspberry and blackberry bushes, an apple and cherry tree, and a patch of strawberries. My Grandpa also often went out on fishing trips around Ocean Shores, WA, and brought back his catch for our family. It was always a source of pride to tell visitors that at least part of the food they were eating was home grown in our own back yard garden, or was caught by my Grandpa. I always enjoyed going through our yard during the summer and picking a spinach leaf, washing it off under the hose outside our house and munching on it and berries I picked while playing in the forest behind our house. Harvesting your own food gives you that pride that I and my Grandparents experienced; the ability to provide for your family food that is pure, food that was produced by your own hard work and time.
Just as discussed from the first video viewed in class, my family is mostly from the level where we eat fish and sometimes cow, but mostly garden foods. For me, it’s uncomfortable to think of myself killing other animals above that level. If I needed too, I’m sure I could desensitize myself, or figure out some spiritual way to justify my actions enough to stomach it. Thinking about it, I agree with hunting your own food. It gives someone a source of pride, as well as if you only hunt for what you need, there is no waste. Steve Rinella’s plan to kill a hefty number of animals for the sake of a feast in honor of Escoffier is honorable enough. It’s a way to experience life in a… much richer way. Having to hunt down and kill the food you prepare, then prepare it allows someone a much more personal connection to what they are putting in their bodies. Plus, as stated above, the satisfaction of having the time and effort put into the preparation of what you eat pay off, just makes it all the more meaningful.
Crowe, Ivan. The Quest for Food: Its Role in Human Evolution and Migration. Tempus: Stroud, 2000. Print.
National Research Council. Dynamic changes in marine ecosystems : fishing, food webs and future options. Washington D.C.: National Academies Press, 2006. Print.
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I agree. To kill an animal for food or other useful purposes can be accepted, but anything more, by which I mean for sport, seems unnecessary. But that may just be for me, who will likely not have to hunt for either purpose. But I do like the large garden to grow yourself.
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