This Post is About Porcupines…Again

This post from years back still makes me smile. I hope you’ll also enjoy it again! Not every juicy morsel works in every recipe. As a writer, I often come across something meaty, think, HUH! and then drag the link to a rarely visited desktop folder because, you know, I’m not writing a piece about using a dildo in zero gravity. (This time.) (Note to self: Pitch story on space-appropriate sex toys.) A while back I was working on a story about porcupines for National Wildlife magazine. My outline included things like porcupine population dynamics and porcupine courtship rituals. It did not include anything about skinning and eating or stuffing and mounting porcupines. Thank you LWON for giving me a safe space to investigate…. In a 1957 article in the Journal of Forestry, David B. Cook and William J. Hamilton wrote of the porcupine: “While interesting to the nature lover and sentimentalist, it’s entirely devoid of any positive economic value—no usable pelt, no tasty flesh, nothing.”…