Originally Posted by
Ambraciot
At least yours are still in a hurry, around here they know the cars will stop so they leisurely stroll across the street often waiting for the whole group to be in the road before any of them step onto the other side.
Our country is overrun with deer, turkeys and wild hogs... I know the FDA isn't fond of people selling game meat, but could a nonprofit process it in bulk and donate it to food banks and soup kitchens?
The problem is that there are those who don't like the idea of culling herds, so they usually protest any attempt made by municipalities to have sanctioned hunts.
There are nonprofits that work with deer processors so that if a hunter wants to donate their harvest, the hunter doesn't have to pay a fee, and the processor doesn't have to eat their normal labor costs.
In PA, at least, one of the issues is that many of the deer can be found in areas where hunting is prohibited (safety zones, private property that is posted no hunting, neighborhoods that have restrictions on hunting). The lack of deer in areas accessible for hunting reduces the number of hunters, which means that less deer are harvested each year. Deer harvests dropped by 14% in last year's season, although the game commission will claim that harvest numbers had been increasing in prior years (hunters doubt those claims), so this was in part "by design."
Originally Posted by
BamaVol
I feel like someplace I lived in the past harvested fresh roadkill for use in feeding county prisoners. By roadkill, I mean deer, but I suppose the right cook would use whatever he was presented.
Locally, there is discussion of a bear season. The damn things are a bigger nuisance than the deer and have gotten out of hand in 3 or 4 counties. Is bear considered red meat?
I think it is. I don't know--I'll probably know at the end of May.
