Wild game meat cannot be organic

Wild game cannot be organic because it is not subject to any controls. Hobby hunters are deceiving consumers with misleading claims.

Editorial Team Wild beim Wild — October 17, 2022

The total amount of toxic chemicals that farmers in industrial agriculture dump on their fields also massively affects wild animals – even causing serious illnesses.

Wild game is by no means as natural and organic as hobby hunters would have the public believe. Furthermore, "organic" is a protected label with specific guidelines and can never apply to wild game from hobby hunters.

Wild game meat is not organic — Farmers see fields as a dumping ground.

Game meat, in particular, is contaminated with residues of pesticides, sprays, manure, antibiotics, etc., from feed and water from the fields, in addition to potential heavy metal contamination, such as lead from ammunition particles used by recreational hunters. Wild animals are also sometimes still significantly contaminated with radioactive cesium-137 as a consequence of the Chernobyl reactor accident three decades ago.

For example, ten liters of liquid manure are produced to make 400 grams of pork. This has serious consequences: the nitrates in the manure are converted into carcinogenic nitrite. Nevertheless, farms that exploit animals, destroy the environment, and endanger human health receive subsidies and are thus financed by the general public.

What do the authorities say about wild game meat?

Processed game meat is carcinogenic, like cigarettes, asbestos, or arsenic, explains the World Health Organization (WHO) .

Studies from Switzerland show that game enthusiasts, such as hunters and their families, consume up to 90 portions of game meat per year in these households. The Federal Office for Food Safety considers the situation of hunters and families who eat game meat once or several times a week to be concerning.

While copper and zinc are essential for humans, lead is considered highly toxic. For years, authorities have therefore recommended that children, pregnant women, and women planning to become pregnant avoid consuming meat from game killed with lead ammunition.

Cases of hepatitis E are increasing rapidly, according to the University Hospital Bonn. One way to become infected is through the consumption of raw or undercooked game meat. " Since this infection is usually harmless, the health risk posed by the hepatitis E virus (HEV) has been underestimated ," warns gastroenterologist Professor Christian Strassburg from the University Hospital Bonn. In people with severely weakened immune systems, the liver inflammation can become chronic and even lead to cirrhosis. Pregnant women are at risk of acute, life-threatening liver failure. In both cases, a liver transplant is often the only option.

Diseases

The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment warns that wild game meat poses an increased risk of contracting toxoplasmosis, trichinellosis, sarcocysticercosis, cysticercosis, taeniosis, echinococcosis or larval alariosis.

Furthermore, game meat has a shorter shelf life than meat from slaughtered farm animals. Several factors contribute to this faster spoilage: the lack of bleeding, the delayed entry into the cold chain, and unfavorable hygienic conditions.

Raw or undercooked game meat can be contaminated with pathogens such as trichinella, salmonella, E. coli, hepatitis E viruses, etc. Therefore, special hygienic precautions must be taken when handling game meat such as venison or wild boar.

Meat is genetically and anatomically unsuitable for humans.

Just because humans can eat anything doesn't mean they're garbage disposals meant to consume everything. Studies show that the diet of Homo sapiens has historically been predominantly plant-based. Meat was primarily consumed only in times of scarcity for survival. The meat content of our ancestors' diet was around 5%. Many anatomical and physiological characteristics in modern humans point to this.

This includes the human swallowing mechanism: Carnivores can swallow their food in large chunks; digestion only begins in the stomach. Herbivores, on the other hand, must chew thoroughly to digest their food. Human saliva contains an enzyme that enables the breakdown of starch during chewing.

True carnivores eat their meat raw, while humans prefer cooked or roasted meat. However, heating destroys the natural digestive enzymes in the meat. The pancreas then has to produce more of its own enzymes, which gradually overworks and weakens it. Then it's not long before illness develops.

Health

And while the bodies of classic carnivores can produce vitamin C themselves, humans are dependent on obtaining this vitamin through food: The active ingredient was probably always so abundant in their diet that they could forgo self-synthesis.

The liver in the human body is not equipped to process the uric acid in the stomach during the digestion of meat, which can lead to rheumatism, arthrosis, gout, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc., which are typical hunter's diseases.

A carnivore's stomach contains a high concentration of hydrochloric acid to digest the tough animal muscles. Humans have stomach acid 20 times weaker than that of carnivores. Furthermore, it is well known that meat produces steroid metabolites during digestion, which have carcinogenic properties. Around three-quarters of people in the Western world today die from chronic diseases related to meat consumption. The kidneys of an average meat-eater have to work three times harder than those of a vegan.

All carnivores in nature have a very short intestine (three times as long as their body), through which meat passes in approximately three hours. Because meat spoils very quickly and becomes even more toxic, they can excrete it so rapidly.

physiology

The human body has a very long intestine (12 times the length of the body), and these toxins from meat consumption damage the body during their stay in the digestive tract, which can last up to 18 hours. Because the environment of the digestive tract is warm and moist, the meat decomposes and produces free radicals – unstable and destructive oxygen atoms that can cause cancer, accelerate aging, and lead to other health problems.

Humans also lack true canines or claws like those found in carnivorous animals in nature. Carnivores have sharp, pointed incisors for tearing, but no chewing teeth for grinding. Carnivores typically swallow their food whole without chewing, etc.

A diet imposed against genetics, the signaling pathways of the informal network, has significant drawbacks and, according to science, promotes mental and physical illnesses. In cows, this is exemplified by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease.

Meat consumption did not play a decisive role in human evolution. Nor did meat enable brain growth. These are claims that originate from harebrained schemes, wild fantasies, mindless hunting literature , and similar unscientific sources ( Wild beim Wild informed – The Brain ). The evolutionarily driven growth of the human brain was much more likely related to the discovery of fire, which provided an abundance of newly available energy.

Venison is carrion

Meat is a highly sensitive filler for hobby hunters and ideally requires constant refrigeration. If this isn't guaranteed, the meat is very quickly infested with germs and putrefactive bacteria, which are anything but beneficial to health.

Many people are completely unaware of the condition of wild game meat.

The blood in a wild animal's veins begins to clot just 8 minutes after death. Essentially, after less than 10 minutes, you're dealing with something known as carrion.

Hunted game is essentially carrion and therefore not actually permissible for sale or consumption by ordinary people.

The word "carrion" originally also referred to the dead body of an animal that was not killed through ritual slaughter. After death, the decomposition process begins immediately in various stages.

Either way, carcasses, animal corpses, carrion or carrion are primarily food for certain animal species that are genetically and anatomically built for it, and certainly not for normal humans.

Hunting operation

Shot game not only lies around unrefrigerated and unprocessed for about 10 minutes, but sometimes for several hours before it is collected and transported for processing.

This is partly because a hunt doesn't necessarily end when the first animal is killed, for example in the case of a driven hunt, long transport routes, etc. Often, sectarian rituals follow, such as the sounding of the hunting horn, post-hunt gatherings, drinking parties, trophy photos, etc.

To ensure that none of the hobby hunters gets caught in another's line of fire, the killed wild animals remain in place until the end of the hunt is signaled.

By this time, the hunted animals have long since turned to carrion, which is also evident from the smell. This is repulsive enough for most people. Most people are disgusted by the mere touching of dead animals. But for hobby hunters, chewing on them is a source of pleasure.

Slaughter

Is this what proper meat handling looks like? Absolutely not! What you see in this picture is far more than just outrageous, yet it is common reality.

Game, which had been lying unrefrigerated for hours, was then cut up and gutted right there in the meadow. If game meat is handled improperly, it spoils quickly. Gutting does not mean bleeding!

COOLING = ZERO!
HYGIENE = ZERO!

If such things are eaten, lasting food poisoning, digestive problems and illnesses are practically guaranteed!

With cows, pigs, and other animals, slaughter is generally carried out professionally. The meat is chilled and processed hygienically. Things are clearly not so sterile when it comes to hunting by hobby hunters.

The slaughtering process itself usually proceeds as follows: The animal is first stunned and then killed. Afterwards, the cut is made through which the animal bleeds out.

The relevant regulations stipulate that the cut must be made within 60 seconds of death. This is for good reason: the animals must not be turned into carrion, which is ensured when the procedure is carried out correctly.

For this reason, game meat from hobby hunters has a reddish to dark color, a disgusting smell, etc., because the carcass parts contain a lot of clotted blood and toxins from the decomposition process.

Conclusion

Wild animals live in constant fear because of recreational hunters. Especially when they are actually hunted, they produce vast amounts of toxic hormones, adrenaline, etc., which combine with other existing toxins and waste products in their meat. Driven hunts, battues, or other forms of hunting by force produce even lower-quality meat, which is often also contaminated with ammunition particles.

These professional and practical considerations for orderly slaughter cannot be implemented in hobby hunting. Anyone who believes that hobby hunters, who are already overwhelmed by many aspects of hunting such as animal welfare, nature conservation, laws, ethics, etc., are also competent butchers is simply naive.

Even the Bible warns against such unclean meat or carrion for several reasons, and advises against eating or drinking blood. Jews, Hindus, and others would rightly not even touch such meat products from hobby hunters.

To claim that one must eat meat for its vitamins and nutrients is just as nonsensical as saying one must go to the North Pole for a vacation. These vitamins and nutrients can be found elsewhere in higher quality.

Abroad

In Canada, it is generally prohibited to sell game meat from recreational hunters in restaurants or shops. It is considered more of a poison than a foodstuff, according to an article in " The Globe and Mail . " The ban is intended to protect wildlife and is also unsafe. Uncontrolled meat can be very dangerous to human health, particularly due to gastrointestinal parasites. Because wild animals roam freely, they are much more exposed to pathogens such as tuberculosis, Giardia, E. coli, Salmonella, Sarcocystis, and others. Game meat is more often contaminated with dangerous bacteria and germs than commonly believed. Feeding pets game meat, especially raw game meat, is also highly problematic if it comes from a recreational hunter.

Of course, this stuff is still sold to the unsuspecting public in Switzerland. Both directly by hobby hunters, and in restaurants or shops.

For the IG Wild beim Wild (IG Wild with Wild), animal protection is always also human protection.

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