Where does Venison meat come from? 🦌

Jimmy Doherty investigates why the UK seems to be importing venison from New Zealand.
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[@AA-uf3bl]

*Importing venison while having deer population in the UK is not insane at all. Venison imported from New Zealand comes from farmed deer/antelope and reindeer, etc. While deer and reindeer are not farmed in the UK, and if you start hunting them on a large scale , no matter that there's 1.5 million of them currently in the UK, they would get extinct in a few years' time.*

[@sankimalu]

If I drove by a lonely street and saw two men sitting in a car by the road, of course I’d assume they are looking for dear…

[@oliverattwell8013]

Doggers

[@yamanmustafa7574]

*deer

[@HOTD108_]

General rule of thumb: When adult deer don't quite taste good enough, you eat the babies.

[@Sum_Ting_Wong]

Like lamb?

[@marthaayeras8049]

@@Sum_Ting_Wong a baby deer is called a fawn, calf or kid, a lamb is a baby sheep.

[@xploration1437]

Well, kittens taste better than an old Tom cat.

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[@AlanElChato]

When are the new episodes getting published?

[@markjasonasingua8227]

Pls more videos.

[@misterhat5823]

Over here we let people hunt more of them when population is up and less when it's down. It actually works fairly well.

[@misterhat5823]

Save yourself from the horrible phone bit 1:01

[@allensturdivant3044]

0:21 That placement is... unfortunate.

[@impunitythebagpuss]

Annnd the gloved butcher shakes hands with the host, then proceeds to chop the carcass apart using those same gloves! Oh dear!

[@Craig-rs2cn]

You should of written.... "Oh deer" Pun intended.

[@richardgatchell2523]

We farm and cull lots of deer they are a pest maybe not as bad as opossums but in the 70s 80s early 90s there were chopper guys shooting hundreds of deer per day but today it's mostly farmed good export earner so if you have them why not sell around the world. Plus there are seven different types of deer in nz

[@xploration1437]

Oh deer

[@Troy-ol5fk]

Do they taste good?

[@na195097]

Aren't British deer a really tiny breed? Is it even worth the effort for such small returns?

[@yamanmustafa7574]

A really breed? I'm glad you edited your post to make sense.

[@na195097]

@@yamanmustafa7574 tiny breed. Autocorrect turns itself on randomly.

[@yamanmustafa7574]

@@na195097 To answer your question - if you mean a tiny breed as in their size, not really. The invasive muntjac is tiny. I often get them about 7-9kg in the skin with head/organs removed. A shoulder is enough for 2, a whole leg enough for 3.

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Food Unwrapped has turned into a rubbish programme... The last few series have been very patronising and annoying.