So the province is considering allowing Newfoundland and Labrador residents to donate surplus moose, rabbits, caribou and fish to our food banks.
How often over the years have we seen reports of inconsiderate persons dumping these products in remote areas before the new hunting/harvesting season starts?
The whole concept of hunting, it seems, was that it is done to provide for the hunter's family and their personal taste in such food.
Are we now going to have a class of trophy game hunter traipsing through the woods — not hunting for personal consumption — but hunting to fill a food bank freezer?
Pick an eligible game pool and take your chances.
If you don’t need it, don’t hunt it.
If you have more than you need, give it to a friend who likes it.
Are we now going to have a class of trophy game hunter traipsing through the woods — not hunting for personal consumption — but hunting to fill a food bank freezer?
If I am a person who needs to access the food bank, I would like to think that any food I receive was slaughtered, harvested, inspected, canned, bottled and processed by trained people in a plant — in approved facilities.
I don’t want suspect products in the food banks.
It is not good enough to have these products in our food banks.
Sorry wildlife officials, sorry hunters, sorry food banks — you are again subjecting those in need to inferior choices in the name of filling a need and doing good.
Next thing, dented/damaged tins and expired items will be approved for these facilities to provide to those in need.
This initiative stinks.
Shame on any foodsharing association for even considering this.
Paul Hillyard,
Mount Pearl
