The Christian Science Monitor reports
Nashville residents who dropped by their local Arby's beginning [the week of November 2] could try the restaurant's limited-time-only venison, or deer meat, sandwich, which the fast-food chain debuted in commemoration of the beginning of deer hunting season.
[...] Many of the Arby's locations that are selling the sandwich are located in more populous or urban areas rather than rural areas where one might expect people to hunt. But Evan Heusinkveld, the president and CEO of the Sportsmen's Alliance, tells The Christian Science Monitor that the urban population is exactly the group that should have the opportunity to try venison.
"Many people who live in the country either have their own freezer of venison or know somebody who hunts", he says, "Selling to city dwellers is exactly what the hunting community would love to see."
While Arby's venison is sourced from farm-raised deer in New Zealand due to USDA rules against serving wild-harvested meat, it will still give customers a taste of what they're missing. The sandwich features a juicy venison steak, crispy onions, and juniper berry sauce.
Arby's venison sandwiches will be offered in just 17 locations in six states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia) during deer season, with the promotion ending the Monday after Thanksgiving.
So far, the company says the sandwich has been a big hit.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday November 07 2016, @05:11AM
I disagree.
"Otherwise there'd be a lot of poaching and pressure on natural populations."
That seems to be the underlying assumption, but why? Why assume that you have to ban commerce entirely in order to prohibit poaching? That's stupid. Again, other countries don't do this, and do not experience this problem.
In Sweden wild game can be (and very often is) sold directly to a local butcher, who will document and report the sale, so you can't really get away with poaching and selling the meat. You need license/tags all in good order to make the sale. Venison, moose, wild boar, etc. are regular stock in the larger butchers, and some of the smaller ones as well. There's no reason the same couldn't be done here, but the people that make money from the status quo will always defend it, no matter how absurd the arguments become.
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