So often it seems that “ethics” are reduced to how we treat other humans, but even Jesus recognized the vital interaction between humans and nature…
I’m cooking for one, again. Yep. I’m single again—at least for three weeks while my wife is away… Here are some recipes!
I am a hunter. I have no children. The world is changing, and the tendril of tradition hangs ever so thinly—threatening to break…..If you don’t have a hunting legacy, begin one and start gathering and telling those stories. Without stories, we won’t know where we came from or the direction we should go.
This was my LAST thought, my LAST wish—that they would love the fellow animals that they pursued, that they would never stop asking ‘why,” that they would share their stories and listen to those of others, and that they always should be thankful for the opportunities that they enjoyed courtesy of the labors of so many others who had gone before …
The events of last night—Sunday night—have left me disturbed. I watched a killer take innocent lives and let him walk away. Then I killed with no intention of eating. It was an exercise in ethics. But I am still unsettled…I believe that if hunting cultures which primarily are going to exist at the level of friendship and family are to continue for generations, they must formulate clear identities and rituals, and ethics must be part of those identities.
Hunting ethics cannot be dictated; laws and policies are dictated either by legislatures or in the case of wildlife by commissions. Ethics may be culturally influenced, but essentially, they are personally formulated and followed according to the discipline of one’s will. Ethics are an expression of the person and his or her own formation and willingness to deny himself or herself freedom for a greater good.
