Reader Response

Chapter 19: Eating Animals
Summary: The Dilemma of eating meat. How can we eat meat and enjoy it when it is so wrong to do. When it comes to Animal Liberation you can either defend the way you live or change it. When you decide to change that is when you have to deal with the vegetarian dilemma. As a vegetarian you have to decide the rules and exceptions. When you are a vegetarian you don't eat meat or fish but you can have eggs and milk. A vegan does not eat anything that involves animals or dairy. The reason why people become vegetarians because they don't want to eat food that has come from an injured or suffering animal.
Gem: Raw-foodist: " Do not eat any food that has been heated above a certain temperature, in the belief that heat damages certain healthy enzymes in food"
Thoughts/Questions: Why does a pescatarian only eat fish? What is the difference between fish and meat an animal is still getting hurt.
Chapter 20: Hunting
Summary: Explains how much works goes towards hunting and gathering your own food. There is a big difference in enjoyment when you eat the food also, since you had to go through the hassle of getting it you enjoy it better when it is time to eat. It explains deeply how people take food for granted and just because we can go to the store and buy whatever we please, we don't take into consideration whats good and whats bad to eat. That is what he realized when he was hunting and gathering the food.
Gem: Wild pigs aren't strictly wild animals. They are really feral pigs. (Feral means domestic animals that are living in the wild.)
Thoughts/Questions: I have never been hunted or gathered food in my life so i wouldn't know what the experience is like but i do feel like there is more of a sense of satisfaction when you know the meal you made was actually made by yourself. The question have is Even though hunting and gathering food is not really apart of the food realm today but are there places where hunting is still very important and significant to a person daily meals?
Chapter 21: Gathering:
Summary: While hunting there are certain guidelines you have to follow because while hunting you dont know what you can eat and what you can't eat. How he explains this is when he was gathering the mushrooms for his meal. When it comes to mushrooms in the wild you exactly have to know which ones are eatable because most of them are poisonous. he basically elaborates on the gathering foods in the woods and how it is way different then he expected. While you gather in the woods you  have to study what you can eat so you remember for the next time because  it is easy to forget.
Gems: "The study of fungi is called mycology and scientist who studies fungi is called a mycologist. Someone who hunts and eats and thinks about wild mushrooms a lot is called a mycophile"
Thoughts/Question: What exactly makes mushrooms healthy to eat if most of them are poisonous.
Chapter 22: Perfect Meal
Summary: How he developed a perfect meal, the date was set to be on june 18 on saturday. He made a list to check off if he did everything that he said he would do to make sure that he made the perfect meal. Even though the main idea was to make sure that he hunted and gathered everything that he was going to eat there where little things on the list that had an affect on the meal. The main idea was to show that he could make a meal that he would enjoy by making it by himself without spending any money.
Gem: That us as the people would be better off if we hunted for out food we would be more healthier and live longer lives.
Thoughts/Questions: How much time would it take to hunt and gather a meal for a family of 4?