venison for school dinners

"Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

"Harvesting animals from the wild will never yield the quantity of the modern meat industry but it will not cause the waste of valuable resources and pollution inherent in that industry either. Local councils in the Highlands are encouraging school canteens to serve "Bambi-burgers" to absorb the 70,000 red deer culled each year, thus providing children with a local, free-range meat that has a fraction of the fat and cholesterol of beef."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/story/0,,1936748,00.html

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