Hunting feeds my family--human and canine. Not deer hunting though. There aren't enough deer up here to have a hunting season on them, unlike most places. However, there are more than twice as many moose as people. So far this season, hubby has been skunked so we are trying to find a place to get a side of organic beef. I just can't eat commercially raised meat anymore.

My husband is a hunter. He's a good one. Never takes an animal for it's horns. Frankly smaller ones taste better! There will never ever be a trophy head hanging in my house!! My father in law is a carver. He turns the antlers into beautiful carvings. We have a First Nations friend who turns the hides into all sorts of clothing and drums. Another native friend takes the "using everything" a step further than we do--we give him all the liver, nose, intestines ect and yes he eats them! The dogs get all the bones and other non-human edible parts.

The dogs' Uncle Randy is a wild game butcher. He keeps my canine family well fed with scrap meat and bones. I have four freezers just for the dog food meat. My dog food bill would triple without his help.

Where I live there are many people who don't live within driving distance of a supermarket. There are communities here that are fly-in only, no road access, where a pound of regular hamburger would cost well over 10 dollars. Those people depend on hunting to survive. That's a large part of why I am so opposed to any drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.