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Unless they grew up on a farm or died in a slaughterhouse, donations of moose, deer and other wild game are not welcome in Ontario food banks.

Citing strict provincial health regulations, Food Banks Canada is maintaining a “strong recommendation” to Ontario food banks to reject meat that was not raised in captivity or killed in a licensed slaughterhouse.

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This year for the first time the Safari Club International’s donation of deer steaks and ground venison was rejected by a food bank in Lanark, Ont. The meat was cut, wrapped and frozen at a provincially licensed butcher shop.

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“Deer and moose are the most organic meat you can get, and is consumed by millions of hunters every year,” wrote Len Dickinson, president of the Ottawa Valley branch of Safari Club International, in an email to the Post.

“It seems totally ridiculous that Ontario’s food banks would rather see people go hungry than allow them to eat properly processed wild game.”