The Spital Emmental claims to offer high-quality healthcare in the Emmental region.
«Our quality is reflected in the care of our daily work, in systematic learning and in our commitment to continuously improving as an organisation. To ensure the sustainability of the quality, safety and efficiency of our services, we implement statutory requirements. We also conduct certifications — both company-wide and in individual departments — and benchmark ourselves against other healthcare providers,» writes Spital Emmental on its website.
Hobby Hunter as Head of Kitchen
Tibor Rakoczy, head of the hospital restaurant and himself a hobby hunter, uses the opportunity to explain to apprentice chefs, using a deer he shot himself, the alleged necessity and context ofrecreational hunting .
Apprentices were also shown how a roe deer is “skinned” — that is, how it is flayed and broken down into individual cuts. The carcass was subsequently processed into ragout, escalopes and strips of meat, and served to patients without their knowledge.
Tibor Rakoczy is promoting something that, upon close analysis, does not conform to common sense. Many people are entirely unaware that several authorities warn against game meat. Processed game meat is carcinogenic — like cigarettes, asbestos or arsenic — as stated, for example, by theWHO.
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Authorities Warn of Health Risks
Killed wild animals are fundamentally carrion and are therefore not actually permissible for sale or human consumption — least of all in a hospital.
There is an elevated risk of contracting toxoplasmosis, trichinellosis, sarcocystosis, cysticercosis, taeniosis, echinococcosis or larval alariosis through game meat, warns theFederal Institute for Risk Assessment.
Studies from Switzerland show that in households of wildlife enthusiasts such as hobby hunters and their families, up to 90 portions of game meat are consumed per year. The Federal Food Safety Authority considers the situation of hobby hunters and families who eat game meat one or more times per week to be concerning. Since it cannot be ruled out that an animal was killed with lead ammunition, children up to the age of seven, pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and women wishing to become pregnant should avoid eating game meat as much as possible, according to the Federal Food Safety Authority.
Cases of Hepatitis E are increasing rapidly, according to the University Hospital Bonn. One way of becoming infected is the consumption of raw or undercooked game meat. “Since this infection generally runs a harmless course, the health risk posed by the Hepatitis E virus (HEV) has so far been underestimated,” warns gastroenterologist Prof. Christian Strassburg of the University Hospital Bonn. In people with a severely weakened immune system, the liver inflammation can take a chronic course leading to cirrhosis. In pregnant women, there is a risk of acute, life-threatening liver failure. In both cases, a liver transplant is often the only remaining option.
Game meat is also less shelf-stable than meat from slaughtered livestock. Several factors cause faster spoilage: insufficient bleeding out, delayed entry into the cold chain, and unfavorable hygienic conditions.
Just because humans can eat — or devour — anything does not mean they are a waste bin meant to absorb everything. According to studies, the diet of Homo sapiens has always been predominantly plant-based. Meat was processed for survival mainly only in times of hardship. The proportion of meat in our ancestors' diet was around 5%. This is suggested by many anatomical and physiological characteristics found in modern humans.
The word carrion originally also refers to the dead body of an animal that was not killed by ritual slaughter. After death, the decomposition process begins immediately in various stages.
Either way, carcasses, animal remains, bait, or carrion are primarily food for certain animal species that are genetically and anatomically built for it — and not for patients in a hospital who wish to recover.
For IG Wild beim Wild, animal protection is always human protection as well.
Added value:
- Game meat: Natural, healthy – or dangerous?
- Game meat from hobby hunters? – Carrion on your plate!
- According to studies, there are health risks associated with the consumption of game meat
- Nutrition: The civilized palate
- Game meat from hunters is carrion
- Game meat cannot be organic
- Meat from wild animals is not organic game
- Dementia: How harmful is venison?
- Venison makes you sick
- Lead residues in game meat products
- Game meat: Risks, lead and hunting myths
- Caution: Warning about game meat from hobby hunters
- Hunters lie when selling meat too
