Hospital venison

Sol

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• Jun 3, 2026

• #21

And the unfortunate reality Its not like the NZ venison Is awful quality wise by any means either Its pretty well raised, If there not on grass there at least on cover crops like turnips or beet so overall there diets are pretty consistent through the entire year where a Scottish hill stag not so much!

Perhaps an unpopular stance in regards to carcasses but If I was independent in regards too shooting and butchering deer with no outstanding "orders" I would just mince deer and donate it, but obviously soon as you start too provide skinned deer that have been processed too genuine establishments the paperwork and required infrastructure greatly increases than just selling in the skin.

 

trickie

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• Jun 3, 2026

• #22

When I did stage one of my Army basic training in the Aldershot area, every Wednesday evening for tea or dinner if you prefer the was always for the 6/7 months I was there Rabbit stew on the menu. Very popular with quite a few of the lads myself included. Equally avoided by a small majority. I was the only one in the platoon to eat it every week we were in Barracks

 

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sauer

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• Jun 3, 2026

• #23

Leec6.5 said:

It’s all down to the uk buying at the right price, £1 is $2.25nz it’s cheap venison nothing more, nothing less

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Its not that simple tho is it ?

Elephant in the room.

Carbon price
..this venison just travelled from one side of the planet to the other ....
How ... especially when fuel so expensive with world stage st moment .... how can that added price of travel compete with local supply ?
How does that "low carbon " label still apply ?
How do they get away with it ?

Paul

 

Leec6.5

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• Jun 3, 2026

• #24

sauer said:

Its not that simple tho is it ?

Elephant in the room.

Carbon price
..this venison just travelled from one side of the planet to the other ....
How ... especially when fuel so expensive with world stage st moment .... how can that added price of travel compete with local supply ?
How does that "low carbon " label still apply ?
How do they get away with it ?

Paul

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Because the meat supplier is buying in massive volume that’s why the rest of it is irrelevant

 

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sauer

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• Jun 3, 2026

• #25

Rest of it is not irrelevant

The ethos pushed on us is low carbon shop local etc etc

But when it means profit over the pushed morality that gets glossed over

All boils down to profit .....all rest is bullsh1t for the masses

Paul

 

VSS

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• Jun 4, 2026

• #26

sauer said:

Its not that simple tho is it ?

Elephant in the room.

Carbon price
..this venison just travelled from one side of the planet to the other ....
How ... especially when fuel so expensive with world stage st moment .... how can that added price of travel compete with local supply ?
How does that "low carbon " label still apply ?
How do they get away with it ?

Paul

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It costs me £36/week to run my chiller, regardless of how many deer are in it.
If I've got one deer in there then my "carbon footprint" for that batch of venison is high. If I've got 8 deer in there, then it's much more reasonable.
Exactly the same applies, but on a bigger scale, to the imports you're referring to. Transporting a handful of carcasses around the world would probably cost the same as transporting hundreds (if not thousands).
I wonder if the energy cost per deer out of large batch of imported venison is more or less than me hanging a single deer for a week for £36? I wouldn't mind betting that it's less.

 

Leec6.5

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• Jun 4, 2026

• #27

UK venison apart from the Fred in the shed who MOSTLY deals in cash pound notes (there are those who do it legitimately not having to go at @VSS) anyone who tells me ****ing different in most part is a liar!

The public services will always buy New Zealand venison over UK because you are dealing with the market on currency, and with the volume they are buying and you are talking millions of pounds in the comparison between UK and NZ Carcasses.

Like I said earlier in the post it all comes down to pounds, shillings and pence

 

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Demetrius

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• Jun 4, 2026

• #28

Mine comes from Hampshire.......the stalkers sell to the game dealer who has a stall in the farmers markets.
I pay an average of around £9 a kilo for it. No idea what the stalkers get, although knowing the stallholder, he sees them all right.
And I'm happy.....
D.

 

DGAR089

Active Member

• Jun 4, 2026

• #29

I work for the NHS and occasionally we have venison burgers in the restaurant, its the only thing i bother eating from there. Everyone usually comments about the "may contain lead" warning on the menu but I am yet to find any of my colleagues who don't like it! (apart from the vegetarians)

 

Smellydog

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• Jun 4, 2026

• #30

If it's from NZ is it lead free?

 

Leec6.5

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• Jun 4, 2026

• #31

Smellydog said:

If it's from NZ is it lead free?

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I doubt it!

 

Smellydog

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• Jun 4, 2026

• #32

If it's from NZ is it lead free?

Leec6.5 said:

I doubt it!

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No point banning it here then...not unless the regime is just anti hunting...

 

VSS

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• Jun 4, 2026

• #33

Smellydog said:

If it's from NZ is it lead free?

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If it's from NZ it will most likely have been killed in an abattoir, so yes.

 

Smellydog

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• Jun 4, 2026

• #34

VSS said:

If it's from NZ it will most likely have been killed in an abattoir, so yes.

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If so that's fantastic and hence why it's approved by the regime which is clearly anti hunting.