Canada food guide

So. what nutritional quality makes wild game better than beef, pork or chicken ? I sense a political agenda at play here.

Grizz
 
Wild game is organic for one. The amount of growth hormones, antibiotics and steroids found in farmed meat is enough to cause health issues and immunodeficiency disorders
 
Grizzly Adams said:
So. what nutritional quality makes wild game better than beef, pork or chicken ? I sense a political agenda at play here.

Grizz
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No Antibiotics... No Hormones... No GMO feed... less saturated fat... if there was a political agenda, it usually goes the other way.
 
Swamp said:
Imagine that. The Canada food guide recommends wild game for meat . Maybe there is hope for us.
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Hey Swamp - do you have a link to that recommendation? I have newly vegan parents and a sister and I heard about how wonderful a soy diet is today. Would love to rebut.
 
Wild game in my area eat the same non organic grain grass and such that the cows and pigs and chickens eat. I think its hilarious that some people can only eat organic because non organic makes them ill but they shoot their deer in a stubble field with a belly full of fertilized and sprayed grain
 
billdick said:
Wild game in my area eat the same non organic grain grass and such that the cows and pigs and chickens eat. I think its hilarious that some people can only eat organic because non organic makes them ill but they shoot their deer in a stubble field with a belly full of fertilized and sprayed grain
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Hahaha!! Venison is best when fed desicated grain!!
 
Patterns of eating that include animal-based foods should emphasize more plant-based foods, and
promote animal-based foods that are lower in saturated fat, such as lean red meat including wild game,
lower fat milk, lower fat yogurts, lower fat kefir, and cheeses lower in fat and sodium.
The intention is not to reduce total fat in the diet. Rather, it is to help reduce intakes of saturated fat,
while encouraging foods that contain mostly unsaturated fat.
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https://food-guide.canada.ca/static/assets/pdf/CDG-EN-2018.pdf
 
'Boo said:
https://food-guide.canada.ca/static/assets/pdf/CDG-EN-2018.pdf
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Pages 14, 15, 51 and 55.

My "beef" is the strong recommendations for fruits and vegetables. I just put in two hours-long stretches of shovelling and blowing snow. It seems bitterly ironic that we live in a Northern temperate climate where SFA grows in winter, but our government is encouraging us to eat imported food. Where is the nationalistic reference to eating local or eating in-season and preserving for those inescapable months of no fresh foot that isn't accompanied by a large diesel fuel cost? It looks like a recipe (ha ha) for food insecurity, and a triumph of Buy American over the Canadian food lobbies.

PS I just did a pdf word search of the document (because I'm a lazy reader). The word 'imported' does not appear anywhere.
 
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Grizzly Adams said:
So. what nutritional quality makes wild game better than beef, pork or chicken ? I sense a political agenda at play here.

Grizz
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Fresh air and exercise when hunting.


If we really needed a new food guide from the government it suggests to me that the old food guide wasn't as good as they made it out to be. And that suggests there is no reason to trust the new one from the same organisation that made the old one.
 
1963beretta said:
Wild game is organic for one. The amount of growth hormones, antibiotics and steroids found in farmed meat is enough to cause health issues and immunodeficiency disorders
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Not always. My parents raise beef cattle, and they run wild out in the bush with the deer for half the year, no hormones or anythjng either. And if you're buying beef raised in Canada it doesn't have any of that stuff for quite a while before being butchered, none can be detectable in the meat.
Kristian
 
billdick said:
Wild game in my area eat the same non organic grain grass and such that the cows and pigs and chickens eat. I think its hilarious that some people can only eat organic because non organic makes them ill but they shoot their deer in a stubble field with a belly full of fertilized and sprayed grain
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Exactly my thoughts. It boggles my mind when people in agricultural areas go on about how healthy the wild meat is and how they'll only eat organic food. I suppose they don't realize the deer they're eating was likely feeding on chemically fertilized and sprayed GMO crops. Plus they're often walking through and laying in these sprayed crops, which the farmers wear protective suits to prevent exposure to the sprays?

Then there's the water they're drinking that's often contaminated with fertilizer and road runoff (oil and gas).
 
billdick said:
Wild game in my area eat the same non organic grain grass and such that the cows and pigs and chickens eat. I think its hilarious that some people can only eat organic because non organic makes them ill but they shoot their deer in a stubble field with a belly full of fertilized and sprayed grain
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I guess those deer you speak of are also loaded with antibiotics, growth hormones and steroids? There is a vast difference in the chemical composition of wild meat and store bought meat.
 
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