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Mark Zuckerberg is challenging himself this year by only eating meat he personally slaughters, reports Fortune's Patricia Sellers. "I just killed a pig and a goat," Zuck posted to his private Facebook page on May 4th, eliciting a wide range of responses from his 847 friends. The kill-what-you-eat approach is the latest in a series of "personal challenges" he has set for himself each year (the last one: learn Chinese). "[T]he only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself," Zuckerberg told Fortune. He started small, boiling live lobsters, then graduated to chickens, finally slitting a goat's throat. "So far, this has been a good experience."

Not to be outdone, we decided to break in to Zuckerberg's Palo Alto home, to see what else we could learn about his budding survivalism. In the backyard, just beyond the goat carcass and set of Bowie knives, next to an axe buried in the stump of an oak tree Zuckerberg had felled himself, we came upon the manuscript of a book, "The Mark Zuckerberg Field Guide." Click ahead for excerpts from this work in progress, in which we see some of the most dangerous game Zuck has hunted.

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