Posted on 02/26/2013 8:56:38 AM PST by algernon_garnock
SHREVEPORT, La. (CBS Houston) — Louisiana’s State Health Department forced a homeless shelter to destroy $8,000 worth of deer meat because it was donated from a hunter organization.
KTBS-TV reports that the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission lost 1,600 pounds of venison because the state’s Health Department doesn’t recognize Hunters for the Hungry, an organization that allows hunters to donate any extra game to charity.
“We didn’t find anything wrong with it,” Rev. Henry Martin told KTBS. “It was processed correctly, it was packaged correctly.”
The trouble began last month after the Department of Health and Hospitals received a complaint that deer meat was being served at the homeless shelter. A health inspector went out and told the homeless shelter that deer meat was not allowed to be served and that is had to be destroyed.
“Although the meat was processed at a slaughterhouse (Bellevue) that is permitted by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture to prepare and commercially distribute meat obtained from approved farms, deer are not an approved meat source to be distributed commercially,” the department said on its Facebook page. “And because hunters brought the deer to the slaughterhouse, there is no way to verify how the deer were killed, prepared or stored.”
Martin says that bleach had to be poured onto the meat in order to destroy it.
“They threw it in the dumpster and poured Clorox on it,” Martin told KTBS. “Not only are we losing out and it’s costing us money, the people that are hungry aren’t going to get as quality of food, the hunter that’s given his meat in good faith is losing out.”
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Wow.
Just, wow
Yeah...Don’t eat that nasty deer meat...it eats only what nature has ingrained into it to eat...
You have to eat that beef or chicken that comes from farms that feed the cattle or chickens growth hormones and many other chemical compounds to ensure a heavier and bigger product.
Some people (bureaucrats) eat too well....
Who complained? How many complaints? Publish their names. Let them show the courage of their convictions. If any exists.
Why would they want to eat deer meat anyway? Let them eat cake.
Solution?
Givem guns and letem hunt on their own.
....aaaaand take gummit moron with them
Idiots.
Venison and beef mixed together can make some delicious sausage. I absolutely loathe everything government.
I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help................
Do these health inspectors get donations from somebody in the beef business? Or are they covert gun grabbers who hate hunters? Or just dumb liberals with too much time on their hands?
Or all three?
The government knows what’s best for you comrade. The evil hunters actually providing sustinence through their skill as hunters is a backward way of thinking comrade. Every good and compliant citizen knows that only the government approved food sources are correct for your consumption comrade.
(If I even think that I need a sarcasm tag for this, you’re either dead, or you are already too far gone! :).
I'd ask how these people can be so officiously clueless, but there is no answer. I begin to believe that the only way to heal the patient is to kill him first.
How come to appeal to Bobby Jindal??....You bring in the TV cameras and embarrass the shyte out of the retard bureaucrat trying to throw deer meat in the garbage. I would love to see a photo of this idiot.
Hunters spent a lot of time and effort here and so did the slaughterhouse (prolly done for free) and a retard bureaucrat pisses on all these fine efforts
Do these health inspectors get donations from somebody in the beef business? Or are they covert gun grabbers who hate hunters? Or just dumb liberals with too much time on their hands?
Or all three?
Wow! What?? So their solution is let them go hungry?? That’s much better. That’s much more healthier.
Incredible.
Sounds like New York City.
A very good place.
My wife and I hardly eat any beef at all. We mostly eat deer, antelope and elk which I hunted. Oklahoma Wildlife Department has a hunters against hunger program where hunters an donate their deer to the hungry if they want.
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