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Having herd( ) on the news that there is a need to cull up to 750,000 deer my wager is that the meat will be disposed of via petfood, export or sadly just burned rather than by way of cheap sales to the public. As I say it's a wager I'd love to lose, nice tasty healthy venison at reasonable prices......I wish

I have never tried BBQ venison... Now you have got me thinking. Any preference in how to cook it?

keith157 wrote:Having herd( ) on the news that there is a need to cull up to 750,000 deer my wager is that the meat will be disposed of via petfood, export or sadly just burned rather than by way of cheap sales to the public. As I say it's a wager I'd love to lose, nice tasty healthy venison at reasonable prices......I wish

Venison tends to go to specialist butchers who sell it on at a tidy profit. I doubt any of it is 'burned' or goes to petfood.

A little good news - one news outlet this morning was saying a cull would initially be seen as ethically unpalatable, and that the best way to side-step this was to create a market and a demand for venison.

Here's hoping.

Steve W

aris wrote:

keith157 wrote:Having herd( ) on the news that there is a need to cull up to 750,000 deer my wager is that the meat will be disposed of via petfood, export or sadly just burned rather than by way of cheap sales to the public. As I say it's a wager I'd love to lose, nice tasty healthy venison at reasonable prices......I wish

Venison tends to go to specialist butchers who sell it on at a tidy profit. I doubt any of it is 'burned' or goes to petfood.

Normally no BUT as I said with an estimated 750,000 extra on the market annually the price would be rock bottom so "THEY" the landowners/farmers & specialist butchers WON'T put the extra on retail sale as the market wouldn't support it at the prices they charge now. So the extra carcasses would have to be disposed of.

750,000 deer over 365 days is not really that much when you consider there are 70m people in the UK. I doubt any of it will be wasted on dogfood, and i also doubt the price will bottom out.

As I said its a wager I'd be happy to lose

Remember, this is wilddear they're talking about.

The costs of farming wild dear are...well, nothing. They're wild!

The only cost involved is the killing (presumably the government will pay for this) and butchery.

Venison should become as cheap, indeed cheaper, than beef.

The specialists shouldn'ty worry too much. If the cull takes a year, it'll only hit them for a year. And ultimately it may well have got a lot of people into eating venison who would otherwise not have tried it.

Steve W

They are talking about it being an annual cull, but most importantly the majority of the venison in the shops is, as you rightly say, farmed. The only wild venison available (and I doubt my palate would tell the difference) is from wealthy landowners who allow shoots on their land. I honestly can't see them allowing the surplus to go on sale and for them to lose profit. Again I hope I lose the wager, I for one would love the price of venison along with Rose Veal, to come down (also langoustine but that's another issue). Thanks all for the insight

Read this thread has made me realise why this forum is dead.

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