The unavoidable reality of working with (or caring about) animals is witnessing the things we humans sometimes do to those animals. Years ago, when I first learned of this hunt, I thought it would soon be obsolete — that the horrifying images which left me sleepless would equally shock the world.
But every year, the [...]
I have Colleen Patrick-Goudreau at Compassionate Cooks to thank for this post. Patrick-Goudreau is an Oakland-based vegan cook, author and speaker. I landed on her page while looking for some vegetarian counterpoints to the current offal-tinged culinary scene — and the food ethos sprung from the words of Michael Pollan.
Pollan in his early writings [...]
Recalling a sad confluence of elk (wapiti) and hunter in the enclaves of Colorado — in Estes Park. We weren’t expecting harm to come to these elk, meandering through a residential neighborhood of Estes Park, just blocks from the Stanley Hotel where the elk herds draw tourists with cameras, not lethal suburban adversaries.
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