Eating the Wild: Bushmeat, Game, and the Fuzzy Line Between Them

It's a safe bet that your recent media diet has included the words
"wet market," "zoonotic disease," and "pangolin," as experts take a
pause from discussing COVID-19's spread and impact to speculate on
the virus's origins. This episode, we're digging into the larger
story behind those words, that of our relationship to eating wild
animals: how and why have our attitudes to wild meat shifted over
time? Why is it that deer shot by a hunter in the U.S. is game, but
monkey caught in the Democratic Republic of Congo is bushmeat? With
the help of Gina Rae La Cerva, author of the new book, Feasting
Wild, we explore what we gain and lose by eating wild, from the
lost primeval forests of Europe to Robin Hood, and from smoked
monkey to bird spit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
podcastchoices.com/adchoices