Scottish Venison Day

[Conor O'Gorman]

Never heard of it.
Or any grants .

Neither did I until it popped up on my FB feed, and now via SD we have both heard of #ScottishVenisonDay

 

[Conor O'Gorman]

Forewarning would have been nice if this event!

To be fair, for most folk, they won't be putting it in their diary, its something the various organisations will plan and plug on the day. You might see it or you might not. There has been one running for years for #WorldWetlandsDay and without checking I could not be sure of the date, just it's usually sometime in February, and BASC does lots of updates on the day. Same for many other social media dates/weeks.

 

[Conor O'Gorman]

Conner you are not preaching to the converted here you are trying to encourage new members of the public to try venison and maybe put it on there plate. Putting pictures up of deer slung over Pony's back or deer torsos hanging in a shinny chill will not help. I don't see the farming sector showing the insides of an abattoir. Lets be real if we are to increase sales its in the industrialised areas and they are with out doubt sensitive to dead things. I don't need you recipes the general public do with out the need for the killing side lets keep that to our selves. Sadly DICK and CO cant seem to get away from the control side.

Davvyd, as explained previously it's just a one day social media thing, and if you look at the FB posts in the OP in the day of #ScottishVenisonDay you will see a very positive reaction that reaches way outside the shooting sector, and where the few antis do pop up there are dozens of folks helping out to expose the nonsense of the antis arguments. It's all good in my book, but I appreciate you have concerns.

 

[David Barker]

Davvyd, as explained previously it's just a one day social media thing, and if you look at the FB posts in the OP in the day of #ScottishVenisonDay you will see a very positive reaction that reaches way outside the shooting sector, and where the few antis do pop up there are dozens of folks helping out to expose the nonsense of the antis arguments. It's all good in my book, but I appreciate you have concerns.

Conner your way off the mark the people we would like to take up venison as a healthy meat option are not anti,s they are the general public. There is no real argument to eating meat and most of the general public eat meat we just need to sway them on to Venison. Sticking the Anti badge on them is part of the problem!

 

[Conor O'Gorman]

Conner your way off the mark the people we would like to take up venison as a healthy meat option are not anti,s they are the general public. There is no real argument to eating meat and most of the general public eat meat we just need to sway them on to Venison. Sticking the Anti badge on them is part of the problem!

We are in agreement on that, perhaps you misread what I wrote or I did not explain it well. I will try again. If you look at the FB posts in the OP in the day of #ScottishVenisonDay you will see a very positive reaction that reaches way outside the shooting sector (that is the general public) and where the few antis do pop up there are dozens of folks helping out to expose the nonsense of the antis arguments. As regards the general public celebrity chefs in particular can and do help raise awareness as do supermarkets that stock game.

 

[devon deer stalker]

@David Barker you are correct, the bulk of the general public do not want to know where, or under what conditions their supermarket cling film wrapped meat comes from.
Heaven forbid they actually started to think about it!
Far better as already mentioned, show how venison can be eaten, and agreed, celebrity chefs can, and do on occasion promote venison.
Showing a dead Bambi hanging off a horse or in a chiller is not the way to promote it.
Sadly though, most can't get it out of their head it's poor old Bambi, and to be honest, they just don't like the taste of it....unless its disguised...burgers/sausages.

 

[sauer]

Venison mince make a bl00dy fine bolognaise ..
Many a doubter swayed with a good bambi bolognaise!

Your right tho burgers and sausages work / are the mainstay

Paul

 

[Mickeydredd]

The uptake last time was only £14k, be interesting to see if the full amount is utilised this time.

I’ve applied.

I was successful, very grateful.