num_pages: 281
description: A vegan-turned-hunter explores the connections between humans and their food sources inviting us to reconsider what it means to eat.While still in high school Tovar Cerulli began to experiment with vegetarianism. By the age of twenty he was a vegan. Ten years later in the face of declining health he found himself heading into the woods rifle in hand.Through his personal quest Cerulli bridges the seemingly disparate worldviews of hunting and vegetarianism: Can fishing and hunting be respectful ways for humans to connect with nature and their food? How harmless is vegetarianism? How do we make peace with the fact that life is sustained by death?At once compassionate and probing THE MINDFUL CARNIVORE draws on personal anecdotes philosophy history and religion offering fresh thought-provoking ideas about the food on our plates.
language: English
title: The Mindful Carnivore
publisher: Pegasus Books