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Eating the white bear: An Arctic icon’s place on the menu

By Michael Engelhard November 18, 2016
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Throughout 8,000 years of shared history, humans have regarded the polar bear with wonder, terror, and fascination. It has been spirit guide and fanged enemy, trade good and moral metaphor, symbol of ecological crisis—and food source. The bear’s meat itself is rich with associations that speak of the fraught relationships between our two species.

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