by — Jim Shepherd , The Outdoor Wire
In describing Rinella’s business (the MeatEater “franchise”) the writer used Rinella’s own self-description (“Environmentalist with a gun”) to explain how he was “teaching a new kind of hunter how killing animals can be part of nature.”
I kept reading, waiting for what I felt would be an inevitable “gotcha” from a newspaper not known for its fair and balanced description of gun owners, anglers or hunters.
Instead, the piece accurately described Rinella, from his growing up a hunter/trapper/angler, but being totally “unaware” that uncontrolled hunting/fishing/trapping virtually wiped out many wild animals from the country to his realization that legislation (think the Lacey Act, Pittman-Robertson) protected them to his ability to explain hunting and fishing so that even the most anti-opponents of both could see the benefits of either-or both.
