Maybe they have picked up the woke tramper market so it might be a good move for them.
Maybe they have picked up the woke tramper market so it might be a good move for them.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing, and right-doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Anyone tried the "real meals" yet?
I used to think the Radix were the shiz, but the last thing in the world I want is to go vegetarian after a hard day's hunting (which I had to the very last time I used Radix having accidentially bought and packed one - so gutted). The plant-based move made me look at other brands. I wonder if Vegans consider the cost to wildlife of converting land to agriculture? If, and I mean, if, I need to carry freeze dried meals, I use Real Meals. They are a Nelson based company with NZ owners. The meals were designed by a local chef, and I think they actually use real meat, not that tofu based stuff in others. The Tom Kar Ghar requires a solid aluminium spoon to ensure you scrape it dry. Outstanding. But the caloric content does vary massively on Real Meals, so check this if that's important to you.
If your out for only a night or two, consider bringing your home made vacuum packed chipottle n cheese venison burgers (mix veni mince, Chipottle/Taco Mix pack, some cheese cubes, and salt (binding agent), set in the fridge and freezer to shape, then vacuum seal), a few slices of cheese, some bbq sauce, spinach and some garlic pita pockets. A $10 warehouse pan with the handle removed is sub 300g, and a piece of tin foil for a lid. Cut up small cubes of butter - that's all you need for "oil", wrap in baking paper. Another idea, make your own home made veni stew (add potato cubes to beef up carb content) and vacuum seal. End of the day, just heat it up in your Jetboil/MSR pot. So good with potatos and butter. Some jetboil and MSRs require a pot adaptor to be able to cook using a pan. But any screw in gas stove should do the trick with a small pan. Then you can just go to town and heat up your own home made meals. Pack a couple of buns to beef up your calories (again butter is good). I don't count the cost of carrying high quality food anymore. If your light on most of your gear, then why not.
If your going to a hut... home made panini, butter, ham, egg, mayo and spinach... wrapped in quality tin foil. Put on top of hut firebox to warm. Bring one for breakfast. Job done.
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"Death - our community's number one killer"
Real meals, formally ‘absolute wilderness’ are not bad. Some pretty tasty options.
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What has always annoyed me about the whole vegetarian/vegan crowd is their argument usually revolves around the idea that a human life is equal to that of an animal- OK fair enough if you're consistent, so by your logic is there also no difference between the life of a cow a rabbit and a monkey? No? So size/intelligence isn't the determining factor, were talking about all life being equal. So that extends to insects too right? Or where do you draw the line? Is it just things you find cute and cuddly that matter? They're both alive? What about a cockroach? They would happily kill that themselves I bet! Lets have a look in all these vegans/vegetarians houses and see who owns some fly spray lol. If you were to look purely at lives taken to sustain a human population, vegetarians are responsible for FAR more deaths than a conventional diet. If you think about it through that lens then wouldn't you want to feed the most people from the least number of lives taken?
In all honesty I don't care what they eat so long as it doesn't effect me, but they can piss off with their virtue signalling.
I'm good friends with the owner of Radix, he's based in Cambridge here.
There are multiple reasons they went away from meat. If you actually have a conversation with him it's rather eye opening.
There are a lot of absurd assumptions going around which are simply not true.
Radix primary focus is extremely high quality nutrition for athletes travelling world wide. Their target market is not hunting, however I'm regularly discussing options to suit the hunting community and there a few cool things in the pipeline.
I helped install their boiler and heating system - they are some clever people.
I'm still buying their stuff - it's calorie dense, and requires the least water of the options I've tried. I'd eat their breakfasts every day if I could afford to.
I’ve stopped buying their meals since the change, still eat the breakfasts as they are bloody good for a day on the hill and their protein powder is the best out there so I use that aswell
Mistakes were made
"Vegetarian"...... an old Indian word for lousy Hunter
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