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Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

MeatEater’s Steve Rinella on the State of Modern Conservation

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.8607 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Today's guest is best-selling author, outdoorsman, and TV host Steve Rinella. He is a New York Times bestselling author, conservationist, sportsman, and host of the television show and podcast MeatEater. He is the author of several books, including American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, Meat Eater: Adventures From The Life Of An American Hunter, The Meateater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival, Outside Kids In An Inside World, Catch A Crayfish, Count The Stars, and multiple cookbooks His passion and efforts to educate on the importance of hunting and wildlife management have earned him the Conservations Achievement Award from The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. SPONSOR: Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife Company. Use CODE "CHANGEAGENTS10" for 10% off your first order at https://www.montanaknifecompany.com/ MTNTOUGH Go to https://mtntough.com/ and enter code CHANGEAGENTS to receive 40% OFF - a savings of about $100 your MTNTOUGH+ annual subscription. Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740 Shop IRONCLAD Apparel: https://shop.thisisironclad.com/ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Visit https://www.thisisironclad.com to learn more. Be sure to subscribe to @thisisironclad on YouTube and major social platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.1

Well, what you get to do is unique and one of the things I appreciate the most about the content you put out is I think for

1:14.7

a lot of people, it's their first exposure to hunting in general.

1:20.7

And you do a good job of connecting hunting, which could be viewed as a selfish activity

1:26.2

with conservation, which is, you know, I don't want to say global because, you know, each country can do what they want, but it has an impact beyond what most people would think. For most people, let's be honest, and again, depending on where they live, I don't judge them, their interaction with sourcing their protein is going to a grocery store, and they just, it's like, oh, this is where the ribbys are. This is where the ribbyes always are. It's where they've always been. And it can be a little myopic. I think you can lose track of the impact of that and what it takes to have that meat right there for you every single day, you know, at will versus going out hunting and maybe you're going to have a full freezer for

2:01.2

the end of the year. Maybe you're not going to have a full freezer depending on how it goes.

2:04.7

But I'm curious your approach over the years.

2:08.6

How do you connect the dots for people when it comes to hunting in conservationism?

2:14.2

When I, early on in my career, I always imagined myself, in the stuff I did about hunting and fishing, that was the bulk of it.

2:24.7

I always imagine myself as being explaining this thing, explaining this lifestyle, mindset, discipline, whatever word you use to capture a life of hunting and fishing.

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