It's been nine years since Culver wrote that essay. We shun chemical additives in our food as a measure of perceived naturalism. We seek out so-called natural remedies. Organic anything is better. Unprocessed is good.
Natural food is great.
Yet as we attempt to rediscover a basic, natural lifestyle, many of us still foster the notion that hunting for food is somehow unnatural. There was a time when nearly everyone understood how nature works and why a fox ate a mouse and why bluebirds ate grasshoppers. Every living thing relies on another living thing for food, which is how nature operates. It's not a crime. And it's why hunters hunt.