/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I'd like to try my hand at making venison. I see it as the most ethical meat you can consume - much more environmentally conscious than beef or pork, and the animal is straight from the wild instead of a concentration camp.

I live in New Jersey, which may as well be the deer capital of planet earth, they're everywhere and always run into the roads. So I figured it'd be cheap and readily available. Nope. The closest place sells it for a fortune and has the deer shipped in from a fucking farm in New Zealand. Other places offer to butcher the deer for you if you bring a carcass in but don't actually sell the meat. I was reading that a bill in 2014 was trying to make it legal for hunters to sell the meat in the state but found nothing about whether it passed.

What the fuck? How does this make any sense? Why do you have to buy farm-raised deer shipped in from the other side of the planet rather than just fucking buy locally hunted deer from a local hunter or butcher to help control populations, just seems completely backwards to me. Am I just retarded and have been horribly misguided / didn't look hard enough?