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Half way to Infinity
On a 10 mile walk with the savage beast yesterday
we must've come across at least 500 deer at different times, some of the herds were 200 strong. Deer are a real problem in our area, and it seems across the country. They cause problems for crop growers. Local farmers can't cull them fast enough. When they do cull, they get a pittance for the venison, most of it goes abroad or is destroyed.
Venison is plentiful, it has no rearing costs and it's naturally lean. There is no reason for venison in this country to be expensive other than it being considered a niche product.
If we switched from eating cows to eating deer we would have a cheap, plentiful supply of free range meat without the problems of rearing. It would also reduce the need to produce crops for cattle at the same time as making crop production less wasteful.
than focussing on reducing beef consumption for the sake of the environment, shouldn't we instead be switching our meat consumption to venison? The benefits would be 1) help the environment 2) solve the deer overpopulation problem 3) solve the issues around the rearing of cattle, 4) reduce some problems of crop production and 5) save posh people from being ripped off on a product that is very cheap.
If you're cutting your meat consumption for Environmental reasons, don't, eat as much Bambi as possible instead. You know it makes sense?
(Betsy does, she's on a mission to reduce numbers in her own rather direct way)
Venison is plentiful, it has no rearing costs and it's naturally lean. There is no reason for venison in this country to be expensive other than it being considered a niche product.
If we switched from eating cows to eating deer we would have a cheap, plentiful supply of free range meat without the problems of rearing. It would also reduce the need to produce crops for cattle at the same time as making crop production less wasteful.
than focussing on reducing beef consumption for the sake of the environment, shouldn't we instead be switching our meat consumption to venison? The benefits would be 1) help the environment 2) solve the deer overpopulation problem 3) solve the issues around the rearing of cattle, 4) reduce some problems of crop production and 5) save posh people from being ripped off on a product that is very cheap.
If you're cutting your meat consumption for Environmental reasons, don't, eat as much Bambi as possible instead. You know it makes sense?
(Betsy does, she's on a mission to reduce numbers in her own rather direct way)