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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 Absolutely.Geek on Tuesday November 08 2016, @02:40AM
Deer are a pest species here, they literally have no predators other then man, they breed out of control and thus there is a massive wild population; I'm from NZ. The fact that the deer are non-native is of no consequence to weather or not they can be farmed....also all 4 legged animals are non-native to NZ. We still farm cows, pigs, goats and sheep in fairly large numbers.
much stricter than they would be in New Zealand
Where did that come from? We have quite strict rules about what you can and cannot do on your farm......the fact that some farmers are assholes and flout the rules going to happen ever where.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:49AM
much stricter than they would be in New Zealand
Where did that come from?
Strangely enough, it seems that it is something else that certain Soylentils do not know.
My theory, based on myself knot nowing anything as an AC, is that Arby's imports deer from NZ because NZ is upside down. Thus, the deer spend most of their lives upside down. This increases pressure and vascular flow to the deer's heads, making them much less likely to contract chronic wasting disease! See? This is easy! Also, since the deer are upside down, you can just pluck them off the ground, much like fruit bats. Yeah, fruit bats! Flying Foxes! And so the costs of production are very much lower, countering the extreme environmental costs of shipping food to where khallow eats. It all makes sense know . . .