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Re "A New Breed of Hunter Shoots, Eats and Tells," by Dwight Garner (Critic's Notebook, front page, Oct. 2):
The new hunters purport to be more ethical and more "connected" to their meals because they kill animals directly rather than having "an anonymous hit man between themselves and supper" (as consumers of farmed animal products do). Killing living beings, however, fundamentally "disconnects" us from those we kill, even when we carry out the "harvesting" ourselves.
Some hunters may "want to thoughtfully stare their protein in the face," but protein does not have a face; living beings do. We can better express reverence for and connection to the animals with whom we share our planet by sparing their lives and eating healthful and delicious plant-based foods instead.
Unnecessary killing, in the field or on the farm, does not magically become "ethical" when we eliminate the middleman.
SHERRY F. COLB
Ithaca, N.Y., Oct. 2, 2012
The writer is a law professor at Cornell, where she teaches a course in animal rights.
To the Editor:
The "new breed of hunter" shoots and eats his own game in an ethical manner. As someone who has returned to the land to grow my own vegetables, keep bees, eat farm-fresh eggs and, yes, hunt for protein, I have discovered no need to pick up a shotgun.
With bean soup, eggs and milk, I don't lack protein. The new breed of hunter is more mindful, perhaps, but has not attended to the message of Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser and others. Moral conundrum aside, meat is an inefficient means to our protein, whether it be game or feedlot-raised.
RICHARD REED
Cumberland, Wis., Oct. 2, 2012
To the Editor:
Dwight Garner, in his roundup review of books by hunter-gatherers, repeats the many reasons and justifications the authors cite for their pursuits except this:
They all obviously had in mind earning publishing advances and royalties from books about their exploits and their philosophies on shooting animals.
MIMI SHERATON
New York, Oct. 2, 2012
The writer is a former restaurant critic for The New York Times.
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