In a Fox News article posted on February 25, (and very rarely do I search the site), Health Dept.: Homeless Can’t Eat Deer Meat, Todd Starnes reports how $8,000 worth of venison was deemed not fit for consumption at Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission since a patron complained about eating the deer meat.
The Health Department ordered the staff at the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission to throw the venison in the garbage and douse the meat with Clorox to keep animals from eating it.
“Deer meat is not permitted to be served in a shelter, restaurant or any other public eating establishment in Louisiana,” said a Health Department official in an email to Fox News. “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.”