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Poaching

Historically, it was open season for hunter-gatherers all year round when it came to our woodlands. If you could catch it you could eat it. But as time went on, the land got divvied up amongst the wealthy. Soon, nature’s larder became the preserve of the rich.

By the late middle ages, the right to hunt was purely the privilege of landowners and nobility. And thus began, that most ancient of rural pursuits - poaching.

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