Could deer hunters ease the UK's hunger crisis?

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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

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.

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.

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...

In nature, they are eaten by predators. But the predators were destroyed earlier.

there's such a disconect to how people think their food arrives on the table. Smarted person in this was the forestry manager.

At least they are not treated with drugs and are eating a natural diet

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.

Finally someone acknowledges FOOD DONATIONS NEED PROTEIN!

This is what happens when no one hunts and there are no natural predators. Certain animal population explode.

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.

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.

Venison is a super nutritious food due to their range and not just being fed from exhausted soil. We need more forest's not more housing estates!

this is one thing the US actually does well

Better get Fenton on the case!

Venison is delicious and everyone should be eating it!

Unless you can make it look like horrible takeaway food British people ain't going to eat it.

To think people were arrested for poaching deer in the past and now hungry people don’t want to eat it?