A Vegetarian Turned Deer Hunter in Deutschland

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Animal agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to global climate emissions. But what about hunting? Does shooting and eating wild game skirt the complicated ethics and emissions connected with eating factory farmed animals? In this episode, a vegetarian-turned-hunter brings two reporters into a forest in Germany, in search of sustainable meat. Not only is it an interesting conversation from a climate perspective, it’s also a fascinating glimpse into the differences between hunting culture in the United States and Germany. This story comes from our friends at On The Green Fence, a podcast about environmental issues. It’s produced by Deutsche Welle and hosted by Neil King and Gabriel Borrud. This episode was part of their season on the ethics and sustainability of eating meat, which recently won a 2021 Lovie Award for Best Limited Series. Featuring Alena Steinbach. Follow On The Green Fence on Twitter: @dw_environment Follow On The Green Fence on Instagram: @dw_globalideas SUPPORT Outside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Subscribe to our newsletter. Follow Outside/In on Instagram: @OutsideInRadio Follow Outside/In on Twitter: @OutsideInRadio Join our private Facebook Group LINKS For more on the “meat paradox” that Neil and Gabriel mention in this episode, check out our previous episode The Meat Matrix. CREDITS On The Green Fence is hosted by Neil King and Gabriel Borrud. Their executive producer is Vanessa Fischer. Their sound engineer is Jürgen Kuhn and they’re produced by Natalie Muller. The Outside/In team is Justine Paradis, Taylor Quimby, Felix Poon and Jessica Hunt Executive Producer: Rebecca Lavoie Theme music by Breakmaster Cylinder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is outside in, I'm Justine Paradise.
0:02.4	And I'm Taylor Krimby.
0:03.7	So there's this thing that happens to me every so often.
0:06.7	You know when you come across something that makes you realize like where you're from,
0:11.6	meeting for me like a product of the United States and culturally for better and for worse,
0:16.7	I am American.
0:19.2	Just you though, not me.
0:21.7	You exist contextless.
0:23.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm from New Hampshire.
0:25.6	Historyless, yeah, that's you.
0:30.9	I mean, obviously being American can mean a lot of things and you can be a product of
0:36.0	more than one culture.
0:36.9	But I think back to this time, I was lucky enough to go to France when I was a kid with my family.
0:42.7	And there was this one time that we visited this elementary school.
0:46.1	And I remember telling the principal, he asked like, oh, what's your day like at school?
0:51.2	And I told him that we get 20 minutes for lunch.
0:54.2	And when I tell you the look of horror, he gave me, I'm still mortified about that.
0:59.3	That's ridiculous.
1:00.4	It's too short.
1:01.7	But he was, you know, a French man.
1:04.0	And he was like, he put his hand on a stomach.
1:05.8	Like he was experiencing indigestion and just was like, oh, too fast.
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