Photograph from Rakka on Flickr Artist Rakka is posting an image of a deer every day this year for her project Year of Deer. Today's deer: a pun-tastic chocolate fawndue. Related Photo of the Day: I Scream, You Scream Photo of the Day: Nat King Cole Slaw...
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Image from iStockphoto.com A terrific, provocative op-ed piece in the New York Times today argues that hunters were locavores before anyone had coined the term. Writer Steven Rinella, author of The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine, is an avid hunter and, apparently, a serious environmentalist as well: While many people will never give up their opposition to killing Bambi, others may change their minds when they realize that destroying a deer's reproductive abilities or relying on the automobile for population control is really no less wasteful than tossing fresh produce into a landfill....Hunters need to push a new public image based on deeper traditions: we are stewards of the land, hunting on ground that we know and love, collecting...
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