Fair Feast - Local venison for food banks

[Msw]

A great pilot scheme for supplying venison to Food Banks in Perthshire. All the venison is from deer culled on land adjacent to Pitlochry where numbers are overpopulated, the carcasses then butchered and prepared on site and delivered to local food banks;

Fair Feast

Hello! This week we launched our Fair Feast social enterprise in Pitlochry. We are using deer from extremely overpopulated areas to create high-quality venison products for food banks and community...

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Fair Feast | Food bank venison | Pitlochry, UK

Fair Feast provides a consistent supply of venison to rural food banks across Scotland. Deer are removed from areas of extreme overpopulation and processed on site. Fair Feast is a pilot scheme that benefits the environment and scottish communities.

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[dillieboy]

What a great idea

 

[Smellydog]

Brilliant and about bloody time!

 

[David Barker]

So the holder of the VDL gets all the prime cuts (Were the money is ) The crap bits get burger for the pour and the stalker gets Nowt. Seems like the best idea i have heard of.

 

[VSS]

So the holder of the VDL gets all the prime cuts (Were the money is ) The crap bits get burger for the pour and the stalker gets Nowt. Seems like the best idea i have heard of.

Especially when you consider that a considerable proportion of the front end probably just goes in the bin!
The game dealers do very nicely out of these schemes I think.

 

[Msw]

Especially when you consider that a considerable proportion of the front end probably just goes in the bin!
The game dealers do very nicely out of these schemes I think.

This is a non profit company and a great initiative to get local venison into local food banks and community larders.

 

[bottletopbill]

Good idea as long as it does not affect those who supply deer for a living

 

[lochty]

Last year, an estate I'm connected with gave 20 fallow to a game dealer to process for a charity dinner (not this one). For the dinner, they supplied 15 kg of loin and gave the charity 25kg of mince to make into bolognaise. They kept and sold the rest.

 

[David Barker]

This is a non profit company and a great initiative to get local venison into local food banks and community larders.

Rubbish there is money in this mark my words. Not for profit does not mean money is not channelled to individuals. Its clever and meets the we have to many deer crap the Gov spout that's all.

 

[Msw]

Rubbish there is money in this mark my words. Not for profit does not mean money is not channelled to individuals. Its clever and meets the we have to many deer crap the Gov spout that's all.

That’s correct, it is a clever and well thought out model that deserves praise, the land that the deer are culled from has a density of over 40/km2 and the aim is to reduce to around 10/km2 to reduce damage to agricultural interests, as well as meet local DMG objectives. Rather than put all the carcasses to a game dealer the owners have set up this not for profit venture to channel venison into local food banks and community larders, so there really is no down side to it. Most people see the benefits of these types of schemes whereby local venison is made available to local people who are in need.

 

[David Barker]

That’s correct, it is a clever and well thought out model that deserves praise, the land that the deer are culled from has a density of over 40/km2 and the aim is to reduce to around 10/km2 to reduce damage to agricultural interests, as well as meet local DMG objectives. Rather than put all the carcasses to a game dealer the owners have set up this not for profit venture to channel venison into local food banks and community larders, so there really is no down side to it. Most people see the benefits of these types of schemes whereby local venison is made available to local people who are in need.

Ok !

 

[Mac78]

I remember reading the original press release about these Community Deer Larders written by a spokesperson for the CNP.(It’s since been taken down from the Web).

If I recall, they’d sold the idea of the scheme as to be of great benefit to local recreational stalkers, whom do not have access to larders. I know this generated a lot of interest locally, as you can imagine. Getting access to a chiller is big limiting factor for most recreational stalkers out-with the winter months. That said, we’ve had 14deg this month!

I do not know much about the Glenkilrie Larder, which was the other business given a grant by the scheme, other than it’s not actually in the CNP! As for Knockbarry Farm, it’s not really benefitting local stalkers unless you want to “donate” carcasses and they certainly don’t entertain recreational stalkers or otherwise making use of the larder for anything other than their own business.

I’d also hate to think that the CNP are subsidising Deer Culling in the area, when the Tenanted Farms land owners have the resources to deal with the problem in-house.