If you’d like to see what truffle hunting is like, I can’t recommend “The Truffle Hunters” a 2020 documentary enough. It’s beautifully shot and composed, it’s funny and sad and heart warming, and shows the life of 70-80 year old truffle hunters and their dogs in a way I never knew about or understood.
After seeing the film, I don’t think cultivating these truffles will be a bad thing for everyone involved.