Posted on 02/27/2013 5:41:18 AM PST by Timber Rattler
The Dept. of Health and Hospitals ordered the staff at the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission to throw 1,600 pounds of donated venison in garbage bins and then ordered then to douse the meat with Clorox so other animals would not eat the meat.
Deer meat is not permitted to be served in a shelter, restaurant or any other public eating establishment in Louisiana, said a Health Dept. official in an email to Fox News. While we applaud the good intentions of the hunters who donated this meat, we must protect the people who eat at the Rescue Mission, and we cannot allow a potentially serious health threat to endanger the public.
That statement set off a firestorm among hunters and lawmakers who called it outrageous and insulting.
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The article said they rec’d a call from someone getting a free meal complaining about being served deer meat. Did they know about deer being sick or just didn’t like deer meat?
There’s a hemorrhagic disease in deer in Michigan right now, too, but it’s said that eating an infected deer is not harmful to humans.
By what authority would the state seize and destroy privately owned meat once it was no longer going to be offered to the public?
In Shreepoot, the freeby eaters prolly preferred racoon or possum.
It’s a wonder we all got by before big brother.
When dining in Cajun land, you are ahead to refrain from asking what is in the stew.
Trust me, you don’t want to know.
Are you familiar with Shreveport?
You got that right, Brother. In Opelousas I was invited to a real Cajun throw down, good food and plenty of beer to wash it down. I expected crawfish, gator, boudin, etc. What they had was some kind of stew, they didn’t even call it gumbo, that about half the people there wouldn’t eat, and they were mostly cajun. I should have paid attention. I was sick for two days after, then someone told me the stew was deer organs, no muscle meat at all, and only the older, hard core cajuns (of which I was not one) or drunk yankees (of which I was one) would eat it. I still had a good time in La, overall.
Was the older lady there with her sulky made from water pipe, bicycle wheels and a car seat from a 54 Buick Roadmaster?
Maybe, but if LA is like most states, deer season has been over for months.
Unless some of the earliest cases are in he freezer, the meat is likely unaffected.
Race Gestapo to descend on the fishmonger in 3...2...1...
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