"Eating with the fullest pleasure- pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance- is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world".
Wendell Berry
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Well said. Venison cutlets it is!
If I say goat milkshakes, does that sound wrong?
First comment shows attitude that will destroy this planet.
Here in Scotland, we have a major ecological problem with uncontrolled deer populations. Eating the buggers seems like a very good idea.
Wayne, not wrong, just disgusting. Goat is for braising or for kebab.
Suenorth, your comment is just silly. I was simply agreeing with the quote. I know my connection with the world.
I carefully harvest from a managed deer herd, properly prepare and preserve the meat, and I enjoy it, because it is both delicious and nutritious. No matter how much guilt you want to bury yourself in, we humans are a part of the food chain.
Get a grip on reality. The planet will not be destroyed. Humans might, but the planet really does not care.
@ #3 Suenorth
You do know that deer are farmed too, right?
Here in Scotland, we have a major ecological problem with uncontrolled deer populations. Eating the buggers seems like a very good idea.
"First comment shows attitude that will destroy this planet."
I'm making elk tenderloin with roasted purple carrots, snow peas and a red wine reduction for Sunday dinner.
They were fresh out of unbaptized infants at the market.
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."