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just how long do you think the authority's will let this continue?
What is not being mentioned in the Main Stream Media is that hunters, many of whom use semi automatic rifles with high capacity magazines, provide more food for the homeless than any other group of people. People in the United States living with food insecurity is growing and can be seen here at a; USDA site on Economic Research Service. America currently has a 15% poverty level which equates to 46.2 million Americans living in poverty. Since 2006 the poverty level rose from 12.3% to its current 15%.
The front page of the Houston Chronicle dated February 6, 2013 ran a headline, “Harris County has plan to bring home the bacon.” The feral hog population in Texas is out of control and in an effort to reduce the population they plan to capture and process hogs to feed the homeless. In Texas tons of pork is donated to homeless shelters and organizations that feed the hungry. With the wild hog population exploding here, the hogs have become a big problem in terms of property and land damage. As explained by one Texas hunter high capacity magazines or even fully automatic machine guns allow the killing of multiple hogs in a group as opposed to only one or possibly two.
Hunters have been quietly donating tons of meat to organizations that feed the hungry for an unspoken number of years. Groups like Hunters Harvest and Hunters for Hungry have been gathering meat donations from hunters via local processing plants. In one year 2011 -2012, 99 meat processors working with Hunters for Hungry provided 152,962 pounds of meat to agencies that feed the hungry. Groups like these are supplied large volumes of game meat from hunting members of organizations like the Safari Club International. A member of the Houston Safari Club reported that hunters in an effort to manage game populations need to cull the herds to insure the health of the animals. This creates harvesting in excess of what the hunters can eat. This led to the donating of meat by the tons to the hungry as in homeless shelters for example.
Many are calling for gun control based on their emotions but the facts weigh in on the side of gun owners. All the anti gun arguers combined don’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to what they do to help the less fortunate in comparison to gun owning hunters in this country. Gun owning hunters clearly let their actions and deeds speak for themselves instead of knee jerk emotions sparked by a tragedy that happen to involve a gun.
When the anti-gun people do for the less fortunate as much as the gun owning hunters do then they may earn the right to be vocal and be seen as having a bit of validity in their arguments. There are hunters feeding the hungry organizations in nearly every state but there seems to be an absence of any anti gun groups that advocate for the hungry in every state. The righteous point always prevails in the end.
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Permalink Reply by easymoney on
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. Authorities Force Homeless Rescue Mission to Destroy $8K of Deer Meat
Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission website
Workers at a rescue mission in Louisiana were forced by state health officials to destroy roughly $8,000 worth of deer meat because state law prevents the serving of venison in homeless shelters, according Fox News.
“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,” the Fox report notes.
Again, just so we’re all on the same page, that’s 1,600 pounds of venison.
“Deer meat is not permitted to be served in a shelter, restaurant or any other public eating establishment in Louisiana,” a Health Dept. official said 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,” the statement adds.
Needless to say, the many hunters who donated the meat are furious with the state officials.
“Hunters are going nuts over it. It’s created an outrage across our state and even over into Mississippi,” Richard Campbell, co-founder of Hunters for the Hungry, a charitable group that donates wild game to shelters, told Fox.
The whole ordeal started after someone at the shelter complained about being fed deer meat (yeah).
Rev. Henry Martin, executive director of the mission, doesn’t get it. He says they’ve been serving deer meat for years.
“This was really good meat. It’s high in protein and low in cholesterol. It’s very healthy,” he said, adding that he was disturbed by how state officials handled the situation.
“You would think we would have due process,” he said. “But they meant to destroy the meat – that’s for sure.”
The mission’s chef said he asked if they could at least return the meat to the processing plant. State officials said no.
“They actually took it out to the dumpsters, split the packages open and poured Clorox on it,” Martin told Fox.
In the process of Cloroxing the venison, state officials destroyed roughly 3,200 meals. That’s roughly 3,200 meals the rescue mission – which doesn’t accept a dime in fed or state aid – will never get back.
“It seems like this was a senseless act,” he said. “I don’t think hungry people who come to our mission appreciate the fact they could have been eating some really good venison and as it is now – no one can eat it.”
When questioned by Fox, state officials said the Clorox baptism was necessary “so that animals would not eat it from the dumpster and become sick or die.”
“This is a process called ‘denaturing,’” they said.
Hunters who participate in the state’s deer management programs basically stuff their freezers with what they can and are asked to donate the rest to charity.
“We ask our hunters once they fill up their own freezers to give the extra to the needy,” said Martin.
A local processing plant prepares the meat once it has been donated by the state’s many hunters.
“As a hunter and somebody who has personally donated deer to this program, I’m outraged and very concerned,” State Rep. Jeff Thompson told Fox News. “You hear about these stories anywhere and it’s a concern – but when it happens in your own backyard it’s insulting.”
Rep. Thompson says he will meet with state officials to question them about the rules.
“We take pride in helping our neighbors and to see thousands of dollars worth of meat that would help the hungry go to waste is absolutely disturbing to me,” he said.
That certianly didn't take long? If we feed them, they won't be dependent on Gov.
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Permalink Reply by XLFD on
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Here was LA Health Dept. response they put up on Facebook on Feb. 21:
We have received several inquiries here about our recent health inspection in Shreveport and wanted to address those concerns. The Department of Health and Hospitals protects the public's health, and enforces the law (State Sanitary Code) to ensure safe food is served in restaurants, grocery stores, shelters and other places. We apply the same rules to all retail food establishments in Louisiana and afford the same protections to all members of the public.
In January, we received a complaint about deer meat being served at Rescue Mission in Shreveport. Our health inspectors investigated promptly and discovered Rescue Mission did have deer meat obtained from hunters, and deer meat is not permitted to be served in a shelter, restaurant or any other public eating establishment in Louisiana. 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. And because hunters brought the deer to the slaughterhouse, there is no way to verify how the deer were killed, prepared or stored. All of those factors present potentially harmful situations that could cause serious or even fatal foodborne illnesses. Because the meat was potentially unsafe, our health inspectors ordered it destroyed, in accordance with the law. Bleach was poured over the meat as an extra precaution so that animals would not eat it from the dumpster and become sick or die. This is a process called “denaturing,” which is standard procedure for these situations.
While we applaud the good intentions of the hunters who donated this meat, we must protect the people who eat at Rescue Mission, and we cannot allow a potentially serious health threat to endanger the public. The State Sanitary Code laws exist to protect all residents of our state, and while sometimes these laws may not be popular, they allow us to ensure the public's health and safety, and must be followed. If you would like to learn more about the State Sanitary Code or what health inspectors are responsible for in Louisiana, I encourage you to visit www.eatsafe.la.gov to learn more.
What a bunch of idiots.
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Permalink Reply by Jane on
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Americans are turning into morons more and more everyday.
This article just pisses me off really bad.
I am against eating meat to begin with and hunting for sport(aside from people packing their freezers for winter who eat the kill) is a cruel thing. Some city slicker dipsh1t didn't want venison, boo freaking hoo, go get a job and buy your factory farmed tortured dead pig cow or chicken them ahole.
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