Shaming the Hunter-Gatherer
An item in a recent Guardian caught my eye, Ministers urged to ban trail hunting ahead of Boxing Day hunt. For those of you who don’t know the term ‘trail hunting,’ in America we call it a ‘drag hunt’ and it refers to make-believe fox-hunting, where a scent is dragged around the countryside and hounds follow it. Lots of fancy dress, many fences jumped, much camaraderie and not a soul involved who understands the least bit about foxhounds or what they’re actually up to.
Hunter-gatherers no more, we are ‘unnatural’ omnivores.
(Wikipedia) A hunter-gatherer is a human living a lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (gathering edible wild plants) and hunting (pursuing and killing of wild animals), in the same way that most natural omnivores do. Hunter-gatherer societies stand in contrast to the more sedentary agricultural societies, which rely mainly on cultivating crops and raising domesticated animals for food production, although the boundaries between the two ways o…