The Reality of it All: Hunter- Gatherer Food Chain

Hunter-Gatherer Food Chain

Michael Pollan presents many claims about the topic of the Hunter- Gatherer Food Chain.  One claim he talks about is the understanding that the hunter-gatherer food chain is a natural process of the world and we have to accept it as it is, for our own nourishment. Pollan faces, well you can say, a dilemma of emotions trying to understand what he should feel for killing the animal. Excitement? Remorse? Shame? Thankfulness? While we do learn bits of the direct and indirect inputs and outputs of this food chain, this chapter moreover focuses on his own personal experience  reflecting on the idea of a hunter's responsibility to understand what they're doing. To understand that while they're hunting for food they're still killing an animal. "Hunters ought to be aware of their seriousness of what they're doing and never treat it lightly." Pollan felt joy discovering his new abilities, succeeding the task, and felt... alive. However, no matter how he looked at it, he felt remorse for killing the pig also. Soon he had understood at least part of the depth of the situation. That he had to accept it. That by discovering the origin of this food , he realized that he, that we all are part of a food chain. We did not create it, we are the components  that support it. The man is just taking the nourishment for his own benefit. " In the end, whatever we think or feel, triumph or shame, that is just the way it is.

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