Eating the Wild: Bushmeat, Game, and the Fuzzy Line Between Them

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Arts, History, Food

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It's a safe bet that your recent media diet has included the words "wet market," "zoonotic disease," and "pangolin," as experts take a pause from discussing COVID-19's spread and impact to speculate on the virus's origins. This episode, we're digging into the larger story behind those words, that of our relationship to eating wild animals: how and why have our attitudes to wild meat shifted over time? Why is it that deer shot by a hunter in the U.S. is game, but monkey caught in the Democratic Republic of Congo is bushmeat? With the help of Gina Rae La Cerva, author of the new book, Feasting Wild, we explore what we gain and lose by eating wild, from the lost primeval forests of Europe to Robin Hood, and from smoked monkey to bird spit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.0	The coronavirus has spread to countries across the world,
0:34.6	but officials believe that it all started in Wuhan, China.
0:37.7	It's believed that the virus may have originated from a market in the city,
0:41.8	where people can buy an assortment of wild game meat.
0:45.0	That's snakes and other wildlife, as well as dogs and cats,
0:48.9	are all sold here.
0:50.3	Alive encages stacked on top of each other.
0:53.2	Images of the market from early December,
0:55.2	taken by a concerned customer,
0:57.0	indicate it was apparently selling other live wild animals,
1:00.6	including skin birds, snakes, and raccoon dogs,
1:04.3	sparking concern that the virus might have been transmitted from animals to humans.
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