He's a very intelligent and well spokesman for the hunting community and great teacher to I dream to go on a hunt with him one day and drink a beer with hi.
I used to be one of those anti hunting tree huggers... Now that I'm older and educated myself on conservation, I've reevaluated my position on hunting. I think it's time
Believe me, I know, he doesn't care that much. We (Michiganders, lame name) don't mind that stuff. We're very free-flowing. Unless we're raised in Detroit or Flint. Not a race joke. I know Irishmen, Africans, and more raised in Detroit. They would respond negatively to that stuff. Or more negatively.
Fun Fact: Because of the large amounts of animals like mice and rabbits that are killed in the act of farming crops a person who exclusively ate game meat would be killing less animals than someone who exclusively ate soy
+AlwaysBeNice I would love to eat venison as opposed to Walmart beef but I don't have the time or energy to hunt and store my own. My dad hunted and my family grew up eating the meat he provided and that shit was far better than anything I've gotten from a store.
Joe you're doing it brother your changing how hundreds of thousands of people think in a very positive way. Thanks for starting this chain reaction. Now this is for everyone else who watches these videos or the podcast. We need to continue what he's started let's push these positive ideas on other people introduce your friends to this. Infect people with positivity and happiness!
Really interesting podcast. I'm not a hunter and don't really have any interest in it, but it's still interesting to hear you talk about it. In Western Europe, where I live, people are probably even more against hunting than you are in the U.S. but, to be fair, widespread human presence in Europe dates further back than in Northern America and there's basically no large mammals left here. Deer and wild boar are the only land mammals I can think of that are still fairly present. Though I don't think hunting was the issue, it's more that we replaced most forests by agricultural lands and there's just not much space left for wildlife. And sometime during the 19th century, we stopped bringing in live cattle to the market and slaughtering it there (the idea was to sanitize the cities) and relocated slaughterhouses to other areas. Out of sight out of mind. And that's why we can act like steaks grow off trees...
+Goku Jr. He said there would be a bonus podcast at the weekend, I hope it's Neil Tyson. He posted something about Joe on instagram recently, maybe i'm reading too much into it but I sure hope it is him.
Steve has got a great shirt on this. I just ordered his book. I just recently switched from vegan to vegetarian but i cannot wait to hunt and/or raise my own animals because I love meat and those are the only ways I can justify eating meat for myself. I'm super excited to read this book and to start hunting. Thanks for spreading all this wonderful knowledge guys!
I respect your empathy but... people from Michigan are used to being treated like that. We're like the Irish or [insert ignored group here]. Also; we're not THAT soft. Give us some credit. We're like manly men. We swallow all that and keep moving until we die. Yeah. lol.
word. was looking for an Xmas gift for my two uncles and father...just ordered 3 copies of Steve Rinella's "Complete guide to Hunting, Cooking and Butchering Wild Game"!
I've been a vegeterian for 4 years and I'm thinking about going vegan and I still love Steven Rinella and the fact that Joe hunts. You see people that's the only way to eat meat. Get with the program.
As a hunter. I am delighted these gentlemen are spreading the word about conservation. I pay 30$ a year to work my ass off to fill my freezer with elk and deer. For that following year I rely soley on ME! All these people that hate hunting and go to their grocery store everyday, have some serious questions to be asking themselves.
Honestly I could list 20 reasons how regulated hunting positively impacts ecosystems and give several specific examples in my local area on how it's saved the ecosystem. But I've stopped bothering to argue and waste my time because I understand that most people don't think that way and it's just the few crazies.
I really like Steve and his new book is pretty impressive. It is always kind of funny how as a hunter I'll listen to every episode. Reptile aliens, Sasquatch, comedians, whatever. But people shit themselves when a hunting-related guest is on. It's all good, we love you all anyway. :D
good guest Steve is always a interesting person to have on the show I like his traveling and hunting stories and he seems like a all around good guy to be around
I loved Stevens original series The Wild Within. He had an entire hour to articulate what he wanted to say or feel about the situation, and Meateater seems like a shorter compact version of that.... I really really wish Meateater had hour long episodes. Steven Rinella has way to much to say and way to much information to be short handed by a 22 min long spot on the sportsmen channel. He simply can't articulate and express himself correctly in the shorter Meateater episodes. Well he can...but if you watched the Wild Within, you would understand how much more refined and detailed he can be. It was like reading one of his books.
Steve is the fucking man & That Cous deer episode is by and large the best solitary hunting show episode of all time. The monologue at the end is absolutely bone chilling
the kratt brother's weren't always this bad. I used to watch their old show on pbs when i was a kid where it had no cartoons. Just basically introducing you to animals and how they live, got to see the animals up close or in baby form (something kinda new for 90's tv besides the learning channel). As far as the cartoon goes, it was a funding issue from what i heard. They had a choice to give up their spots on their show for cheaper actors and downgrade the show again or let pbs turn it into a cartoon which is cheaper than getting real animals, sending them to africa to see a beetle or south america to see a frog lol.
Every time Joe has a hunting guy on it ends up being a great podcast. Steve is by far my fav out of the bunch, so is Remy Warren and Jim Shocky and Cameron Hanes.
hit that spot on... I have hunted for years teaching myself in the outdoors since I was 6. I'm now 29... I also use to watch "hunting shows" but it's all corporate America selling their sponsors... I guess some of us grow up and realize most shows are for simple people and for people that don't get out in the field enough ... keep up awesome work gents..
If we only eat what we kill/harvest with our own hands, and only attempt to kill or harvest that which we would ourselves fully eat, conservation would no longer be a necessity, and the reputation of hunters/hunting would be restored to the universally honored tradition it once was. Steven Rinella is paving the way, leading by example....good people, to say the very least.
If we only ate what we killed or harvested with our own hands, billions of people would starve to death and we'd devolve into an agrarian society. Sound good?
+Fly Guy I can't stand his accent. I like Rinella by the way, but his accent is basically a pretentious Midwestern accent. He's somehow taken out the homeliness of the midwestern accent and replaced it with a douchey poshness to it.
+Tech Knewz I don't know why everyone including shaycarl made a big deal about it he just said casey's name. The way they hyped it up I thought they spent a whole segment talking about him or something.
+bileductable I realized that too. Maybe it's just RU-vid in general, but goddamn are some comments moronic. I don't even think people are trolling anymore. They are legit autistic.
Steven: 'Why do you have such a problem with meat?' Joe: 'Yeah, people aren't looking at things rationally.' What kind of circlejerk is this? The meat production is a huge part of climate change and the way we farm most animals is truly disgusting. I don't have a problem with eating meat, but everyone who buys meat without giving it a thought where it's coming from is simply supporting an industry that literally abuses animals on massive scales. I can't think of something more thankless than abusing animals that give you their bodies to eat. Edit: Ok, Joe does admit that factory raised meat is horrible, I just saw 'hosts MeatEater' and I judged too soon, my bad.
