by Matthew Sitman
Steve Rinella has a new TV show about hunting (and book of the same title), Meat Eater. Outside magazine interviewed him about it, and he distinguished his approach from Bear Grylls, of Man vs. Wild fame, this way:
I don’t know Bear Grylls but the title of his show implies an adversarial relationship to the wild. I don’t think that the point of being in the wilderness is to get out as quickly as humanly possible. In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation. I don’t run around thinking, Holy shit! Watch out! And I don’t smear mud all over my face.
The video above gives a sense of what the show is like – when a wild pig got in a tangle with two hunting dogs, Rinella proclaims, via voiceover, "You have to find it within yourself to stab the pig." Not for the particularly squeamish.
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