This show, hosted by Steve Rinella, is a great start to bridging the cognitive dissonance between the harvester and the consumer. People seldom reflect on what hunting is and what purpose it serves. It is more than a pursuit to fill some egotistical void. Conveying that face to face reverent respect for the delicate balance between life and death becomes intimately subject to the beholder. That somber sobering success of harvesting an animal that is earned through the trials and tribulations of countless missed opportunities and empty game bags. Those tears of joy, symbiotically fused with tears of sadness as a life lay in warm motionless offering to the needs of the steward. It becomes unsavory to me to think that I could thumb down, and package all that it truly is. But one thing I can say is that this chase between predator and prey brings about powerful palatable reverence for how hunting holds an irrevocable pedestal in a world where our food is a near hop skip and scoot from our front door. It takes a show like this to give people's "minds-eye" the ability to wander into those shoes. I applaud the work of his entire crew and its effect on wildlife/public land conservation. I hope to see it grow in the years to come.
Review of MeatEater
