{"id":66649,"date":"2013-02-27T01:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T23:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=66649"},"modified":"2014-01-08T00:31:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T22:31:58","slug":"us-government-destroys-1600-pounds-of-deer-meat-for-homeless-just-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/02\/27\/us-government-destroys-1600-pounds-of-deer-meat-for-homeless-just-because\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government Destroys 1,600 Pounds of Deer Meat for Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Health Department Forces Homeless Mission To Destroy $8,000 Worth Of Deer Meat<\/h1>\n
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Shreveport, LA \u2013 A homeless mission was ordered to destroy $8,000 worth of deer meat. There was reportedly nothing wrong with the meat, but state law forbids the serving of venison at homeless shelters. The Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission was ordered to destroy 1,600 pounds of donated deer meat.<\/p>\n

The deer meat was not even returned to the generous folks who wanted to help feed the homeless people in Louisiana. Health department officials ordered the Shreveport Bossier mission to put the deer meat in the garbage and pour bleach over the venison to prevent even hungry animals from having a free meal.<\/p>\n

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A statement the Louisiana Health Department submitted to Fox News<\/em> reads:<\/p>\n

\u201cDeer meat is not permitted to be served in a shelter, restaurant, or any other public eating establishment in Louisiana. While we applaud the good intentions of the hunters who donated this meat, we must protect people who eat at the rescue mission, and we cannot allow a potentially serious health threat to endanger the public.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Venison boasts far less fat the beef and is a favorite on menus in southern Ohio. Perhaps the deer meat destruction highlights how drastically eating habits vary from state to state. An annual crawdad festival is held in southern Louisiana. In Ohio, hardly anyone would consider plopping a fried crawdad in their mouth \u2013 perhaps on their fishing line, but never on their taste buds.<\/p>\n

Hunters who donated the venison to the Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission are extremely angry about the destruction of the deer meat, according to The Blaze. Hunters for the Hungry co-founder Richard Campbell had this to say about the incident:<\/p>\n

\u201cHunters are going nuts over it. It\u2019s created an outrage across our state and even over into Mississippi.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reverend Henry Martin sated that he had served deer meet at the homeless shelter for many years. The Louisiana Health Department ordered the venison destroyed after one of the homeless people at the shelter reportedly complained about being fed deer meat.<\/p>\n

What do you think about the Louisiana homeless mission being ordered to destroy the donated deer meat?<\/p>\n

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Hunters and homeless people in Louisiana are righteously outraged after state health officials forced a homeless shelter to throw out nearly a ton of perfectly good venison.<\/p>\n

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The meat that had been donated to the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission could have fed more than 3,000 people. Instead, it was tossed in trash bins by officials from the Department of Health and Hospitals who say that state law prohibits the serving of venison in homeless shelters.<\/p>\n

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Not only did the officials toss the meat, they doused it with Clorox to make sure it couldn\u2019t be eaten by animals or, presumably, people.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDeer meat is not permitted to be served in a shelter, restaurant or any other public eating establishment in Louisiana,\u201d an official told Fox News in an email. \u201cWhile 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Richard Campbell, co-founder of Hunters for the Hungry, a charitable group that donates wild game to shelters, said hunters across the state and in Mississippi are outraged about the statement and the waste.<\/p>\n

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The state\u2019s health Gestapo got involved after someone at the shelter complained about being fed deer meat, a staple in many countries across the globe and considered by most people to be a treat or a delicacy.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know what\u2019s wrong with Louisiana, but in California, turning down venison would be like turning down a lobster tail with drawn butter \u2014 it\u2019s something that sane people who aren\u2019t vegetarians just wouldn\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

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The director of the mission said they\u2019ve been serving venison for years. The shelter, by the way, doesn\u2019t take any government money. It\u2019s completely self-sufficient thanks to its donors.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis was really good meat,\u201d said the Rev. Henry Martin. \u201cIt\u2019s high in protein and low in cholesterol. It\u2019s very healthy. \u2026 You would think we would have due process. But they meant to destroy the meat \u2013 that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Louisiana hunters participating in the state\u2019s deer management programs are allowed to keep as much meat as they can handle. Martin\u2019s mission asks hunters to donate the rest. The donated meat is processed at a local meat plant.<\/p>\n

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State Rep. Jeff Thompson called the destruction of the meat \u201cinsulting,\u201d and he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

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Only a truly callous bureaucracy could dare pretend to care about the homeless then turn around and destroy food intended for the needy, for no real reason other than \u201cbecause\u201d that\u2019s what the rules say.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m sure you recognize the excuse \u2014 used to justify evil deeds, from the treatment of slaves to the rounding up of Native Americans to the Holocaust. You hear it from bureaucrats at all levels, from bus drivers to presidents. It\u2019s an expression of contempt for the rights and needs of the common man.<\/p>\n

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In the case of the meat destruction, it\u2019s also an illegal taking of property for which the mission needs to be compensated.<\/p>\n

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An apology is the least that the state should be doling out for this Kafkaesque assault on the homeless and on common sense.<\/p>\n

About Tad Cronn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tad Cronn is the editor in chief of The Patriots Almanac. View all posts by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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