the mindful carnivore

Former vegan Tovar Cerulli ate no meat products for ten years. Now, he hunts and eats deer meat from around his home near Marshfield, Vermont.  A PhD student in the communications department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Cerulli chronicles this journey – and his discoveries of the complexity and ambiguity of food production – in the new book, The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance. Published by Pegasus Books, the book came out in February and is distributed by W.W. Norton in hard copy and e-book formats. In the book, Cerulli describes how his concern about animal welfare and the environmental impacts of the meat industry led him to vegetarianism...