Let Them Eat Cake? Government Destroys 1,600 Pounds of Deer Meat for Homeless Just Because

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.

“Deer meat is not permitted to be served in a shelter, restaurant or any other
public eating establishment in Louisiana,” an official told Fox News in an
email. “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.”

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.

The state’s 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.

I don’t know what’s wrong with Louisiana, but in California, turning down
venison would be like turning down a lobster tail with drawn butter — it’s
something that sane people who aren’t vegetarians just wouldn’t do.

The director of the mission said they’ve been serving venison for years. The
shelter, by the way, doesn’t take any government money. It’s completely
self-sufficient thanks to its donors.