People who are uncomfortable eating wild game/deer but will gobble down on some store bought chicken or cow that has lived in tiny dirty industry cages will always boggle my mind
It could well be a class issue/mindset. Venison has historically been expensive and seen as a luxury food - so the concept of eating it could be quite alien to a lot of people from low income backgrounds.
It's shocking, I think it's reflective of a lack of understanding regarding how food goes from farm to plate, so many people don't know further than "I buy it at the supermarket". In reality the standard of the food and animal welfare in locally shot game is leaps and bounds better than the chicks used for processed chicken, but as a nation we have terrible education regarding agriculture and food at both the production and consumption end.
In America we have a organization called Hunters helping the hungry. Hunters donate the deer they harvest and they pay for the processing. They have donated over a million pounds of meat to the homeless and less fortunate.
Some hunters are cruel and barbaric, but the vast majority of us are thoughtful and reflective on the subject. Nature is brutal. Predation is a part of it. No predation is unnatural and leads to massive destruction, waste, and suffering. Venison is an extremely healthy meat and a great protein source. Public access to hunting has done more to manage and conserve wild and semi-wild areas in North America than anything else. Even if you prefer to not eat animals, that fact is inescapable.
No they're not, you've obviously never met any. I have. Nature is not brutal, and it is a completely false depiction of nature. What's more, in the UK, hunting does not mean shooting, it means pursuing prey on horseback with hounds. I have no position on eating meat or even shooting. I have shot myself, albeit a long time ago. Modern shooters, often throw their prey away, because they can't stand preparing it.
Hunting is so much more ethical than farming. Farming reduces the quality of life of animals tremendously, often stuck in barns never let outside, stuck in high density numbers which impacts their psychological health, and often requiring fields of just grass which limit the amount of wildlife that can co-habitat there. Hunting on the other hand allows the animal to live as naturally wild as they can before they're used to feed people, requires an intimate relationship with nature and gives the animal every chance to use it's senses to prevent it's self from being shot. Farm animals have no such luxury, shoved into an abattoir with no chance of escape. Hunting is the most ethical way you can eat meat, and should be far more wildly accepted in this country imo.
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@ReijiSakamaki Is it not pupular in the UK? It's quite expensive in Switzerland, and almost seen as "fancy" food. I love it.
I raise cattle and hunt wild animals. There is nothing unethical or immoral about hunting or raising meat. But Im the one actually living on a farm and living in the natural world every day. People who live surrounded by urban cultures and the "safety nets" that it provides are almost never going to understand how this works. There is a lot of bigotry/arrogance towards rural communities. I live in the American midwest.
Meat is meat folks... now I draw the line at dog, but I had smoke horse meat in Kazakhstan that was delicious. At first I didn't want to try it, but as the US Army Interpreter for that function, I didn't want to insult our hosts. I am glad I tried it. I even had goat stew in Curacao in the mid 90's...
Horse meat aperently a million French people couldn't be wrong however its not a thing in the UK, its only used for dogfood and in glue factories lol!🤣😂👍
@@vegan_victorydo you know how a deer dies in the wild? They die by cold, starvation or getting eaten alive. All of which is a terrible brutal way to go. Most deer shot by hunters die in seconds if not instantly. You may not agree with it but it's a fact. Also how many critters do you think die when a field is plowed? It's hundreds if not thousands per square mile.
Venison is wild, sustainable, free range and non intensively farmed. What's more it is low in calories, high in protein and the healthiest form of red meat that you can eat. Well done to SJ for helping to promote this as a source of protein for those in need.
I live in New Hampshire, USA. archery, muzzleloader, and rifle season provides.. I've packed my freezer with Venison to enjoy throughout the winter for years. Saves money on groceries also, brilliant idea.
Great piece, shame they ground the meat into a liquid basically. People need to remember that for cows you have big featureless bio-depleted landscapes. With managed deer populations we can have wild landscapes that also produce food - as an ex veggie who now eats venison, big recommend to others out there who are vegetarian for environmental reasons.
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@oscarius4 Better than throwing it away. Maybe making it to ground meat is the cheapest option.
@@vegan_victory what do you think will happen to animals when we go vegan ? Don't you understand wildlife needs to be managed especially in areas where there are no natural predators
In my country venison is a normal part of the food chain, mostly through restaurants, where it is prepared according to traditional recpies. It is high quality organic meat.
How did it get to the point, where people in Tory heartlands are begging for food? Where the products of pest control, in the form of charitable handouts, are presented as a solution? At what point do you decide that something is systemically wrong?
Education is the key here. People need to know the facts. It’s not an all out slaughter on deer, but a sustainable management to benefit all animals, flora and fauna- including deer. Here’s a fact- 74000 car accidents a year in the uk involving deer. If you’re on the fence, just think of all those things I’ve mentioned. Not to mention it’s a wild source of meat that had a wild happy free life without being given antibiotics or other drugs.
P.s. we all should be out hunting getting back to basics its a skill that has kept man alive for hundreds of thousands of years.. n one day it might keep u alive when u need it..
I don't know what to make of this report.... The big supermarket chains throw absolutely loads of food away each day because they refuse to give it away or let it go for next to nothing, when they do reduce the price significantly enough it's near the end of the day when most of it will end up in the bin.
As someone from the state of Wisconsin here in the United States. I find it extremely odd to see such aversion to eating deer. Deer are extremely populous here in Wisconsin and a vast number of people who live here hunt deer. I’ve eaten venison since I was a small child. It’s an amazing nutritious and clean meat. I would definitely recommend it over supermarket meats.
LYNX is the best choice for a predeter to control muntjack , the days of the general population allowed to hunt are gone ,in the UK 🇬🇧 you can buy venison from a commercial business , but not own it
because the majority of venison in supermarkets is farmed in New Zealand then flown halfway across the planet. ridiculous when the country is overrun with wild deer, but there is too much red tape to allow stalkers to sell direct to mainstream outlets. you're not going to get much more free range meat with a low carbon footprint than locally shot venison.
To sort the food crisis you first need to replace the corrupt incompetent politicians who caused it. Get rid of all the unnecessary red tape regarding imports and food production, allow planning permission for people to start smallholdings and live on their land producing local meat and veg .More land for community farms in and out of cities. More farmers markets with food banks for people to bring and donate. Donate food from supermarkets that is approaching end of date. And yes full and eat invasive species.
On what land? If the land is already being industrially farmed then you're unlikely to increase its productivity by turning it into smallholdings unless those smallholders are spending all their time growing very labour intensive crops.
@@oliverwilson11 Massive estates owned by upper class and royalty where they just have lawns and box hedges, pasture for horses and other nonsense. Animal agriculture is the worst use of land, be better off with bananas🍌🍌🍌
Yep, nothing to do with what’s happening in the world. And we can certainly expect labour should have done a much better job. Sure they’d be onboard with the idea of game as food as well….
Wage stagnation and high prices are Tiny Blair's fault, I blame the Tory's for doing nothing about it and I was an ignorant labour voter for 20+ years. Not anymore
Because they live on refined carbohydrate which is the cheapest staple - bread, pasta, rice, etc. It is fattening but not filling - you feel hungry again a short while after eating because the food isn't satisfying.
For this week maybe, what then? Anyway there are far richer individuals than him in the UK. Really we should just be ensuring that the massive multinational corporations pay the correct amount of tax & not allowing then to avoid it the way they currently do.
In 14 years the U.K. has gone from 1 food bank in the country to more food banks then outlets of McDonald’s. This has been caused by the Conservative government.
An interesting story, but I am amazed this made it to film: @7:44 the journalist pronounces the word 'asked' as 'aksed' - what has happened to your standards @theGuardian?
Why does this DEI selected presenter call the butchering of the deer 'increasingly brutal'? Its DEAD. He is isolated from the reality of food. What a melt.
you don't "Catch deer" with a rifle slung over your back while in the woods.....you are hunting and eventually HARVESTING a deer. You don't "catch" a deer when your clearly hunting with a rifle
Harvest regular supply fresh venison. Sell to higher end purveyors of game food at higher market prices. Use 100% of the revenue to purchase food more palatable to the masses. Chicken , beef, whatever. Donate all this to food banks. Toffs get their game. Proles get their traditional meat. Everyone happy. Win win situation.
Absolutely ridiculous that anyone would turn down free nutritious food like that just because “Bambi” maybe some of these people should experience real hunger then see if they turn anything down…
This is mad. The country which claims to be the 5th or 6th richest in the world is literally starving to death and having to eat it's own wildlife! Anyone eating pets, yet?
While we continue to take the land for more and more houses, the wild life is pushed further into tighter area , we, the humans are the problem, not the deer,
this looked brutal as. if we eat an animal do we remember something died so we could live? does it even occur in our emotions? not judging, do what you need to.
fk me they getting it free !! thats top quality prime yumminess from personal experience in wales herefords scotland and east sussex plus they overpopulate the SE , wich hasnt much woods left
In the UK, 90% of MEN dont hunt , or fish trout or salmon or own a firearm , its all for the rich landowners and royalty , if you hit one with your car , can you keep it ?? EEEEWWWW LOL
