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Isn’t selling venison against the law?
by chasd00 2y ago
Isn’t selling venison against the law?
- snapcaster 2y agoYeah you're on a site called hackernews quit being a dork
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoexcuse me. where else are we dorks supposed do go? i'm running out of forums where I can post with the replica of my childhood pc rig.
- scoot 2y agoWhich law, where? Please don't assume that everyone here lives in the same city/state/country/continent as you.
- willyt 2y agoDepends which jurisdiction. It’s legal in the UK if you have a license and I think it has to be professionally butchered and labelled at a registered slaughterhouse.
- ljf 2y agoI'm in the UK - but yes he's a registered 'pest controller' - he gets paid by local farmers to keep the invasive deer population low (muncjac and Chinese water deer), and is also licenced to sell the meat. You can get either a whole/half skinned and basically butchered deer from him, or any selected cuts, for £9 a kg - which pretty damn cheap really!
- kvirani 2y agoAnd that right there is a solid moat
- ljf 2y agoHe gets paid twice - what a business!
- nathancahill 2y agoBait shop on one side, sushi shop on the other! As a friend likes to say.
- MandieD 2y agoThat is a fantastic deal for meat you can feel good about! I pay that much for pork at the big organic grocery chain in Germany (ebl) that I can only hope they’re telling the truth about, and far more for the occasional beef steak there.
- Amezarak 2y agoI live in America. I buy half-beef from a farmer down the road. His cows are pastured all the time, grass-fed and grass-finished. It costs me $3.50/lb to do this and that includes dozens of steaks - all cuts and ground beef etc. are the same flat rate. This isn't a special deal either, this is how the guy makes his living, along with some other farm products.
- arrowsmith 2y agoWhat's "half-beef"?
- oaththrowaway 2y agoIt's where you buy half of a cow
- bsder 2y agoLink, please? Or at least a general area? Grass-finished is really tough economically; corn results in an animal almost 3x the size. The only grass-finished place I have is struggling no matter how much beef I eat :) I really need other places if it goes away.
- carlosjobim 2y agoThat should be the last concern of any decent human being. If they outlaw breathing, will you stop? Hunting is something our species has done for over a billion years by this point.
- saintfire 2y agoHunting isn't illegal. Selling hunted meat is. It combats overhunting and poaching.
- IG_Semmelweiss 2y agoSincere question - how does one "overhunt"? If I were to use a huge trawler with a big net to catch hundreds of fish I would call that overfishing. But is that even fishing? Thwres nuance between artisanal and industrial, and both get caught with the same word
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoOne issue with confusing laws with ethics: We forget that lines are best drawn between doing harm and not.
- mtnGoat 2y agoIt’s simple… harvesting more than the population you are hunting can sustain. A lot of animals outside or deer are regulated through a lottery system, if everyone who wanted to hunt a bear, mountain goat, or cougar did every year, we’d have none.
- wil421 2y agoWe have deer seasons for a reason. Lots of times you can only hunt the male bucks to keep populations in check. People have decimated populations. Look at the Goliath Grouper ban in Florida and how the species has recovered.
- sandworm101 2y ago>> Hunting is something our species has done for over a billion years by this point. Sustenance hunting yes, but the rules about selling wild meat are to prevent market hunting. There are more humans by weight than any other land animal. If the general population started eating hunted meat, any wild population would be wiped out. So we have careful rules to ensure hunters do not hunt simply to sell the meat.
- valicord 2y agoI'd be more concerned about prions in this case.