MINDFUL CARNIVORE CL

by CERULLI,TOVAR

• ISBN13: 9781605982779
• ISBN10: 1605982776
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-17
• Publisher: MICROCASM

Summary

As a boy, Tovar Cerulli spent his summers fishing trout and hunting bullfrogs. While still in high school, he began to experiment with vegetarianism, and by the age of twenty he was a vegan. Ten years later, in the face of declining health, he would find himself picking up a rifle and heading into the woods. Through his personal quest, Tovar Cerulli bridges disparate worldviews and questions moral certainties, challenging both the behavior of many hunters and the illusion of blamelessness maintained by many vegetarians. Are fishing and hunting barbaric, murderous anachronisms? Or can they be respectful ways for humans to connect to nature? How harmless is vegetarianism? Can sustenance hunters and vegetarians be motivated by similar values and instincts? In this time of intensifying concern over ecological degradation, how do we make peace with the fact that, even in growing organic vegetables, life is sustained by death? Drawing on personal anecdotes, philosophy, history, and religion, Cerulli shows how America'¬"s overly sanitized habits of consumption and disconnection with our food have resulted in so many of the health and environmental crises we now face.

Author Biography

Tovar Cerulli awarded a graduate school fellowship by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2009, where he is researching diverse perspectives on human relationships with the natural world. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Catherine.  Visit his webiste at www.tovarcerulli.com.

Table of Contents

No More Blood	p. 1
Man the Gardener	p. 19
Trouble in Eden	p. 37
An Animal Who Eats	p. 53
Where the Great Heron Feeds	p. 65
Hunter and Beholder	p. 85
Double Vision	p. 102
A Hunter's Prayer	p. 121
Healing Ground	p. 143
Into the Woods	p. 156
Kinds of Killing	p. 177
Fickle Predators	p. 192
Blood Trails	p. 202
Hunting with the Buddha	p. 216
The Red Deer	p. 231
Reckoning	p. 243
Epilogue: Mindful Eating	p. 253
Notes	p. 259
Acknowledgments	p. 279
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