Dublin homeless get venison from Irish deerstalkers

Rising prices are forcing people into poverty in Ireland. There are now 7,000 homeless in the country, and 2,500 of them are children. The Wild Deer Association of Ireland is helping by feeding them hot venison on the streets of Dublin, provided by Ireland’s deerstalkers and served by volunteers from the Lamh Failte charity.

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Why shoot deer?
There are more than two million red, roe, fallow, sika, muntjac and Chinese water deer in Britain’s countryside and semi-urban areas, the highest level for 1,000 years. Numbers have doubled since 1999, according to the Deer Initiative, the UK government’s deer agency.
Deer are an attractive and an important part of our wildlife. However, they have no natural predator in the UK so numbers must be sensibly and strategically managed to keep them in balance with their habitat and to prevent damage to crops, trees, woodland flora, gardens and other wildlife.
Deer cause £4.5 million-worth (Forestry Commission Scotland) of damage to plantations and other commercial woodlands in Scotland. Crop damage is estimated at £4.3m a year according to DEFRA, with the greatest damage on cereal crops in east and south-west England.
More than 8,000 hectares (Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology) of woodland with SSI status is currently in ‘unfavourable’ or ‘recovering’ condition due to deer impacts such as browsing and fraying. Deer can also influence the variety of wildlife in woodlands and other habitats by altering structural and plant species diversity. According to the University of East Anglia’s Dr Paul Dolman, that has resulted in a 50% decline in woodland bird numbers where deer are present, impacting particularly on nightingales, blackcaps, chiffchaffs and warblers.
Deer are susceptible to Bovine TB and may be responsible for the transmission of TB to cattle. They are also the likely driver behind the UK’s increasing tick population (Scharlemann et al 2008).
Happily, venison is a delicious meat. It is wild, natural and free range, and – almost fat-free – it is one of the healthiest meats available today. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Venison is high in protein, low in saturated fatty acids and contains higher levels of iron than any other red meat.

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[irishmade]

Least someone in the country is helping the irish people, well done, certainly isnt the government

[tatu_lady]

Well done to these people charity starts at home 👍

[bobbythompson]

I hope the Irish who are going hungry are being looked for, God Bless the people who give their time!

[berniecasey]

Its very sad to hear my wonderful Irish people suffering - I know these rents are Horrible, I send you ALL love from NYC How I survive here is No Joke either.

[lisalee]

I'm from USA..times are tough all over. Today I received a good amount of Free food. I divided it up and was able to give a bag of food to 2 different homes. Please try to pay it forward...even with just kindness 😃🙂😃

[kevinwasserfall]

God bless the Wild Deer, from South Africa

[sallybennett]

This is wonderful, the nutrition in that meat will far exceed that of supermarket mince too.

[musicmike]

Much love for my Irish brothers and sisters....Bless you all...

[grose]

No ten thousand are homeless in Ireland -mostly Irish, from given the clothes off are backs! Thank God for good people that want to help them..

[johncamerondunn]

Priceless, well done all involved 👏👏 something we should all be involved in really

[lindareidy]

What a lovely thing to do. How marvellous they are.

[thomasclarke]

All those beautiful people warmed to this.

[shedevil]

Well done 👏 what you do fir homeless 👏 more should be done ✔️ godbless you guys top of the morning to you guys

[williambuckley]

This is how it should be done all over the Uk as well Respect to all involved ❤

[Anam]

The Irish people need to step up and support the Irish homeless, the Irish government have turned their back on them.

[Archie]

Amazing 🙏 what a difference kindness can make

[TheDAT]

Well done. Wonderful to see people being helped.

[Prodrive]

All the foreigners have 4 star hotels and new houses however. All gone horribly wrong in Ireland.

[emjay]

I am Filipino I love the Irish people they are very accommodating and hospitable, I miss my friend Darren from Ireland he lives in navan hills. It's a Matter of showing compassion to those in needs, spread love, life it's too Short, someday we all ended here on earth life is a trials heading to our true home. And we will all unite someday, in our true home which is the paradise. Do good to others. Love your neighbor as you love yourself

[michaelogrady]

Is this what we wanted for our poor and dispossessed 😢bless those poor souls