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Artemis


Artemis endeavors to get more women in the field and on the water, to support women as leaders in the conservation movement, to ensure the vitality of our lands, waters, and wildlife. Artemis endeavors to change the face of conservation.

Jan 7, 2021

Carla Brauer was a vegan and animal rights activist in her teens. These days, she's a farmer, stockwoman, hunter, and... wait for it... a taxidermist! We talk about how you can change your diet without changing your ethics, dermastid beetles, and what it's like to give a TED Talk on your transition from vegan to hunter.

2:00 Dallas, Oregon (not The Dalles... and not Texas) 

3:00 Living that double-freezer life - one for food, one for taxidermy

5:00 #pandemicpig in the freezer AND king pigeons... they're like big white fat doves (AND... Oregon's big bad rats)

8:00 Rat terriers to the rescue! 

9:30 The personal journey of a former vegan/animal-rights activist who became more open-minded to eating meat, animal husbandry, and even taxidermy

13:00 Meeting a woman who took in 50-some chickens as rescues... and ended up selling their eggs to help pay for their keep. Vegan eggs? A eureka moment: You don't have to change your ethics to change your diet

16:00 The problem with a black-and-white approach to food (example: veganism has a hard line in the sand)

20:00 That gap between thinking 'maybe I want to try hunting' to actually getting out there... where do I even start? Like, how do I learn to shoot a gun? (It started with someone's generosity.)

22:00 Years of hunting with no success

23:00 Public lands hunting... it's intimidating. Finding a farm with a deer problem was a better first start

26:00 Reconciling your former vegan self (and social circle) with your emerging hunter/farmer self

28:00 Farming and making money farming are very different things... also, that point when you realize you're making more off quail skulls than vegetables

31:00 Dermastid  beetle husbandry

33:00 "I had a lot of access to severed heads... as one does."

34:00 Carla's TED Talk

36:00 Hunting came (long) before agriculture... but does innovation allow us to evolve away, morally, from animal consumption?

41:00 Hiking/birdwatching/other outdoors pursuits... are they a surrogate for what hunting used to give us?

45:00 The hunting mindset follows you everywhere outdoors once it's in your frame of mind

47:00 The experience of doing a TED Talk (!!!) - and also of seeing animal rights protesters at your talk

54:00 ANYONE can be a hunter... and it's important for the sporting community to embrace that

55:00 The goal of meaningful conversation isn't to change minds... it's to plant seeds 

58:00 Skulls to hides... and a self-built, wire-wheel fleshing machine

Join Artemis Southeast online for a fireside chat - Jan. 14 at 5 p.m. Mountain! Register Here!