I am a zoo keeper. I love animals. I have a raccoon and a bearded dragon for pets. I live on the west coast. I fly kites. I have two cars - both of them are Mustangs. I have a brother. He owns a grocery store here. I always go to my brother's store for food. I try to be super nice to people at restaurants. I watch movies. I have never eaten bear meat. I am an animal lover. I eat meat. I buy responsibly sourced meat products.
I love eating animals. I live in Alaska. I don't own a car. I run to get from place to place. I don't go to the grocery store. I hunt and forage for my food. I am not that good at hunting or foraging. I am a programmer. I am not athletic. I like to go hunting. I have experience hunting moose and deer. I want to hunt bear. I am not an experienced hunter. I have eaten bear meat. I have trust issues with delivery personals. I am short tempered. I want to be self-sufficient. I am ashamed about my anger management problems.
I found a responsibly sourced bear meat producer and it was pretty tasty like you mentioned. I'm glad you liked it! I know it's not very common, but it's meat like any other animal. I'm thinking of making some deer and bison jerky soon. Do you like jerky? I sure do that sounds great please save me some! Did you hunt them yourself? Yeah, and I need to use the meat soon. And it's much much cheaper to make it yourself. Jerky can be expensive. I'm sure you've seen the prices at your brother's store if he carries it.  Oh okay I see, and you bet I have they are so expensive. Does making jerky provide some distraction from your stressful life? The prep and eating it does! The cook time is hours and hours, so that's not very good for getting my mind off of things. They're opening a new store about 10 minutes from me. That's a big deal around here. I wanted to see if I could hunt and forage to survive, but it's nice to know I have an easily-accessible store nearby now. That makes it all the better, all that hard work! That sounds awesome, really convenient. I wish we had more snack machines at the zoo for that exact reason. With practice you will be great. I do ok I guess for my relatively limited experience. I think hunting helps with my anger management -- it's very peaceful when you're not tracking an animal, plus a lot of work goes into it. It's a good way to expend energy. How do you manage your stresses? I bet it is a good release, and helps with concentration. I usually just like to hang out with my pets or work on my cars. My Mustangs keep my hands full. Trying to put a turbo in the old one. It must be a great feeling to know about cars. Before I moved here, I commuted an hour and a half each way, and I was always scared something was going to happen to the car I had then and cost an arm and a leg to fix. When you know how to do it yourself, it's no big deal. Parts aren't nearly as expensive as labor. It makes me feel a lot better and more self-sufficient for sure. That is a long drive for anyone, I understand. It sure keeps the cost down but it takes so long when I do it. Oh, yeah, I guess if you have to fix a car out of necessity versus hobby, it's a little more stressful, but it's nice to know how to do it! I don't know how to change a windshield wiper. I'm useless with cars. I do see a man around town who rides his "pet" moose. Maybe I should do that.