Number of deer donated to food banks way down

[catmandu57]

In our state, a hunter can donate their harvested deer to local food banks to help those who need food have meat as well. This year despite a record harvest, more people are filling their freezer with venizon.
It was the same thing here back in the eighties, I didn't eat cow for two years here, just poached deer and fish caught in nearby rivers and ponds.
When we were running low on meat it was time to go spotlight one ilegal as hell, but when you're hungry, ilegal dies'nt mean much.

[shraby]

1. We always used to call venison "Government beef".

[aquart]

2. Venison doesn't get Mad Cow, either, does it?

Can you make venison hamburger?

[htuttle]

3. Deer get CWD, which is a very similar prion disease

And it's sort of rampant in the Great Lakes region. Hopefully they test the donated deer before they butcher them.

http://www.maddeer.org

[salvorhardin]

5. As far as CWD in deer

it depends on who you ask whether or not it's transmittable to humans. Personally, I say err on the side of caution and test all meats, but whether or not that's possible is another question.

Venison makes great hamburgers and can replace beef in just about any recipe. I love the taste of venison, but many people think it tastes too "gamey". That can be handled by soaking it in milk overnight. Another great way to marinade venison is soaking it in beer, which is particularly good if you're going to grill it.

I don't hunt, but hopefully a kind hunter friend will gift me with a couple of delicious venison roasts this year. :-)

[RubyCat]

4. What does deer taste like?

I've never had deer. I've had lamb (don't know why our founding fathers seem to like lambchops so much), froglegs, duck, even an ostrich burger.

[sam sarrha]

6. Link............ check this out...MAD DEER

www.maddeer.org http://organicconsumers.org/index.htm

guess it is easier to kill off the poor than help them.. they want so fucking much money when you offer them a job.. ingrates...

Mexico is just shipping their poor to the United States to educate, provide free medical care and jobs. what a deal, and the 20,000,000 migrants haven't taken any jobs from the citizens either, what a deal... what a deal. and Mexico get to raise the standard of living for their Privileged too. what a deal....

and look at the links in Maddeer.org

[salvorhardin]

7. Related question

Why aren't deer riased for food like beef is? Is it just a societal thing?

[China_cat]

8. There are farm raised deer

but for some reason the meat goes to pet food.

(My cats just LOVE the venison and green pea kibble)

[catmandu57]

9. There are cultures

who keep deer herds, mostly reindeer. It's easier to raise cattle, than deer, I suppose.
Deer does'nt taste too bad especially when you're hungry, I hear that Elk meat is the tops, and was told if I ever ate it I'd never eat another cow.

[McKenzie]

10. we farm deer in Scotland

Most of our venison comes off the hill though, mainly red deer (Cervus elaphus). We sometimes get roe deer meat (Capreolus capreolus) too. Yummy cooked in red wine sauce.

I tend to get the wild variety of red deer venison, shot on an estate a few miles away from here. I live not far from the southern Cairngorms; I can see Lochnagar from the house on a clear day. Some of the wild herds up there are hundreds strong.

Poaching is a big problem in some areas. It's not just one or two animals, it's wholesale slaughter including hinds in calf. The keepers search the roadside bins in the morning for evidence in the form of dumped heads and so on.

[amazona]

11. it's a good way to spread CWD

A lot of the wasting disease is being spread by farmed/ranched deer. I've heard Fish and Wildlife folk in Louisiana complain because a multi-million dollar hunting industry is threatened by a $600,000 farmed deer industry. (I am trying to recall the numbers off the cuff so I may be off on these figures but you get the idea.) We've kept the disease out of the state so far but with farms importing deer from other states...it may be only a mtter of time.

There are too many deer already -- the population is ten times what it was in colonial times -- so in many areas it seems a waste to farm deer when the wild ones are munching the understory into extinction.