Hunting is for Hipsters

It has always seemed that hunting has been for the manly men who wanted to support their family by bringing home the bacon in a more literal sense. These men often wore flannel and sported good sized beards. They were masters of their land. However, in the United States today, there are fewer hunters than there were twenty years ago. For a number of reasons, hunters are quitting the hunt. However, men who wear flannel and sport beards are rising up to the challenge. They are the hipsters.

Many believe that it is more responsible for a person to eat an animal that was raised in the wild and naturally rather than an animal that was raised in a meat farm. The fattened cow that is raised on a farm does not have the same ecologically soundness to it as a wild animal of the land. Hunting may be waning amongst the backwoodsmen, but is expanding into urban and liberal circles. These “hipsters” know that if a person is going to eat meat, they should not be choosing to have meat from the current industrial system of agricultural that is filled with antibiotics and antidepressants.

Jeff Hill and his father have been going hunting together ever since young Hill could hold a gun. For Hill is it not about the thrill of the hunt of the ethical reasons, but a matter of family. The quality time that the two spend together is worth more to him that the meat they eat. As long as he gets to spend time with his father, Jeff Hill is happy.