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Nov 2021
44m 10s

A Vegetarian Turned Deer Hunter in Deuts...

NHPR
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Animal agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to global climate emissions. But what about hunting? Does shooting and eating wild game skirt the complicated ethics and emissions connected with eating factory farmed animals?  In this episode, a vegetarian-turned-hunter brings two reporters into a forest in Germany, in search of sustainable  meat. Not o ... Show More
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