Houston area hunters help the homeless

[GonzoStyles]

with rifle season just around the corner it's time to clean out your freezer!

Help Hunters Harvest feed the homeless with your donations of wildgame.

Oct 27 from 10am-6pm Hunters Harvest will be accepting donations of wildgame at Bass Pro shops in Pearland and Katy Mills mall

https://www.HuntersHarvest.org

[Ghost]

this is one of the most weird adverts ive seen.

Giving homeless people dead animals, whatever next lol.

can you open a food stand with cooked food on it for free for them, i think they will appreciate that more than a dead bird

[GonzoStyles]

So tell me how is helping feeding those unfortunate to be homeless weird?

Trust me we have had very grateful volunteers from the missions & shelters come out and work at other events helping to process the game.

Tell you what Ghost, why don't you come on out to Texas and volunteer yourself, might do you some good, I could arrange a hunt for wild hog and we can donate all the meat to Hunters Harvest.

Or just run your mouth some more, I bet that feeds loads of unfortunate people.

[Ghost]

lol ok it just amuses me the ideas people come up with for charity which go against logic.

do homeless people need to eat game, no. so why not use some intelligence and sell the game, then buy food which you get more quantity for the money for such as pork and chicken. i expect youd get nearly 4 times the quantity.or simply give them the money from the sale. game a boar donations vs the money they are worth or other foods you can get for them doesnt add up to a sensible donation to the homeless.
still its better than not doing it i guess.

doesnt take much thinking does it. the idea of homeless people dining on wild boar and game is just rediculous

[GonzoStyles]

Ghost do you like making assumptions about things you have no real knowledge of?

Maybe you just have something against hunting, which is another issue alltogether............

So let me get this straight Ghost.... instead of feeding people directly through the donations of hunters and fisherman who have had a good year in the field..

you propose we sell the meat donated to raise money to buy other meat?

Do you understand all the logistics that would be involved in that?

Do you really think that processing, storing, selling, then repurchasing and shipping would be more productive than donating directly to the shelters?????

Please explain the "Logic" behind that?

[Ghost]

yeah you can get 4 times more food for the money, what would make most sense is to sell the meat and give the money to charity because they can buy more with that money than you can feed on expensive meats like fish and wild boar.

if the price of 1 fish can get you 4 chickens then sell the fish give them the money and they can buy 4 chickens and therefore have more food.
its pretty simple.

[GonzoStyles]

I am sure in your mind it is that simple but here in the real world its far from that........

there are laws regulating the sale of native wildgame in Texas and all other states. We circumvent this by donating DIRECTLY to the missions and shelters


Wildboar is an exception but with the proliferation of them here they are far from "An expensive meat" as a matter of fact they are treated as vermin by ranchers and farmers for the thousands of dollars of damage they do to crops and fences every year. In years past they have been shot and simply left in the field for the coyotes and vultures.

Not to mention ONCE AGAIN the logistics of staffing and providing space to store, sell and then RE-PURCHASE and distribute the food.

When you start to understand how this actually works outside your head you will see that the cost of the method you mentioned in time, labor and cash is going to far outstrip any gains by purchasing commercially produced meat.

But since your just running off at the mouth about a subject you have no hands on knowledge of, you are going to have all kinds of great ideas in theory, that in practice simply won't work.

Here is a "logical" idea Ghost, save the half-baked ideas and make an effort to understand things you criticize before you express yourself.

[Ghost]

Wild boar is considered vermin in every country and hunted by farmers, the meat is worth a small fortune.
ok, i accept the point where you have regulations regarding sale of wild game as you cant get around that. But with fish and the wild boar you could surely be onto a winner. We are talking about selling meat. i still find the idea of feeding all this to the homeless odd. perhaps id have to see this in action to appreciate it but it looks like a waste of resources to me.
i would have thought every butcher and shop for miles would love to get regular deliveries of fish and wild boar. maybe not.

[GonzoStyles]

Ghost as much as you like to give out free advice your not good at taking any.....

go LEARN something about the subject before you pass down judgement.

FISH ARE NATIVE WILDGAME and may not be sold unless you are a commercial fisherman, licensed and regulated by the state.

And there goes the whole "1 fish for 4 chickens" arguement

EXOTICS and non-native species (like wildhog) are still regulated by the state and processing to sell is STILL a commercial operation that is under the rules and regulations of the state. Requiring licensing and inspection of processing and storage facilities.

upon closer inspection your epiphany vanishes in a puff of reality.

Please hold on to those strokes of genius until you know what exactly is involved, that will help you make better suggestions based in the reality of the situation.

[GonzoStyles]

lol ok it just amuses me the ideas people come up with for charity which go against logic.

Well despite going against logic, in one day (10am-6pm) we managed to collect over a ton (2000lbs) of donated wildgame from 3 locations.

everything from catfish to chukar

All done with 100% volunteer labor and donated equipment, and the food went directly to the shelters.

I am looking foreward to working with Hunters Harvest again soon.