The motivation for doing this kind of thing is not very well explained in the article. Is it designed to promote vegetarianism?
Eating only what you kill doesn't seem to promote a healthier lifestyle per se; you're still in civilization and you didn't have to trek all over creation to hunt the food yourself, so you get no exercise and very little satisfaction. It sounds like you just show up and kill the food.
Presumably the meat is super-fresh, however, since it's cooked immediately after it's killed. If you kill the food yourself, you know exactly how fresh it is. But really, can't you just trust that the food was freshly killed? Why do you have to do it yourself? And is eating freshly killed meat that much better than eating killed-and-then-chilled meat?
Whatever the motivations are, this behavior will appear to the public to be somewhat psychopathic.
I read somewhere it's a new fad among the super rich, it's ostensibly about self-sufficiency and the feeling of sheer power over life and death. This has historical precedent in the European feudal system where noblemen enjoyed going on regular "hunts"; those were staged events with huge entourages that had nothing to do with food procurement but everything with displays of power and prowess. However, those feudal hunts were in practice more a maneuver to dispel the tremendous sense of boredom and uselessness that comes from sitting around in a castle all day with nothing to do.
It appears plainly that he wants to accept repsponsibility for the life and death of animals that he eats, and this may have been motivated by some third party that refuses to accept this.
I think when you have wealth without bounds the philosophical debates you have with yourself that usually end with "well, I just can't afford to that sort of experiment" no longer end that way.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 11.5 ms ] threadEating only what you kill doesn't seem to promote a healthier lifestyle per se; you're still in civilization and you didn't have to trek all over creation to hunt the food yourself, so you get no exercise and very little satisfaction. It sounds like you just show up and kill the food.
Presumably the meat is super-fresh, however, since it's cooked immediately after it's killed. If you kill the food yourself, you know exactly how fresh it is. But really, can't you just trust that the food was freshly killed? Why do you have to do it yourself? And is eating freshly killed meat that much better than eating killed-and-then-chilled meat?
Whatever the motivations are, this behavior will appear to the public to be somewhat psychopathic.
I think when you have wealth without bounds the philosophical debates you have with yourself that usually end with "well, I just can't afford to that sort of experiment" no longer end that way.