I have slowed on my love for venison, and thinking it was better than good bough meat the last decade, when it is the most contaminated you can ingest,,, and that is becoming worse by the year!! Wild game that feeds predominantly on crop fields are some of the most chemical polluted sources of meat we have today!!! Another reason I refuse to coat farmers pockets with BS lease fees to hunt and control their wild game problems!!
Every year farmers throw more and more chemicals on the deer food, from crop fields to orchards! Not just fertilizers but insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and genetically altered seed to as much as chemicals to bitter the food and deter deer and other wild game from eating and destroying it.
The worst part of this is, the beef pork and fowl that will later eat this after it has been washed with rains dew and diluted, wild game is feeding on it as soon as it is treated, and I for one living where crops are abundant have noticed this huge change in the digestion of my venison, more so in some areas than other.
But even down south on many paper company properties, they are now spraying multiple times a year for everything from bugs and other plant diseases to fire preventatives. But if anyone thinks the deer we eat today is more nutritious or better for us than it used to be, this is the kind of brainwashing commercial farming and economics has accomplished!
I have a buddy that raises beef, grows his own alfalfa, and does his own minimal medications, but like buying quality anything, it aint cheap, but dam sure better! like everything else today, people try and justify everything with little respect to any research,, or one sided research that only agrees with the ideals they want to believe.
I have spent years of doing this daily from fishing and hunting, in many areas that I will no longer pursue what I am going to eat anymore. But I am willing to work a little harder, and settle for a little less to get what goes in my freezer to assure it is the least contaminated as possible, but this is all I do the past 30 years!