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    giving deer and bear meat to friends and family.

    Hey, just wondering what your opinions are on giving wild meat to friends and family. I was successful last year with a spring bear and a mulie buck in fall. I enjoy giving small amounts of my treasured meat to friends and family. I know lots of wild game can be filled with worms or tric ( bears). I cook all my bear to 160f. If someone gets sick off improper cooking of the wild meat I gave them, can they sue me or blame me for the problem?
    I was thinking of labeling all my bear with cook to 160f.
    What do you do? Do you worry about people getting sick, is it safer to just not give meat away?

    Thanks for the help
    Lord let me come home bloody, not my own.

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    Re: giving deer and bear meat to friends and family.

    I've never had a problem with people getting sick from not cooking it properly.
    If they're your friends and family, who enjoy wild game meat, chances are they know how to cook it.
    If you suspect someone that close to you might sue over a tummy ache, I'd keep the meet for someone who isn't so litigious.

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    Re: giving deer and bear meat to friends and family.

    Just make sure you advise them on how and why to cook the meat properly.
    Do you think retail stores are sued if a customer doesn't take proper precautions
    when handling and cooking chicken and pork if they become sick from salmonella
    poisoning?

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    Re: giving deer and bear meat to friends and family.

    Ive never had a problem and have opened up quite a few friends to bear meat. i just always explain how i cook it and nobody has seemed to have a problem as of yet.

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    Re: giving deer and bear meat to friends and family.

    If you're worried that someone would sue you for doing something nice for them, I would say they're not THAT close to you.

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    Re: giving deer and bear meat to friends and family.

    Quote Originally Posted by Coachman View Post
    If you're worried that someone would sue you for doing something nice for them, I would say they're not THAT close to you.
    i was just about to say that... thanks for saving me the extra key strokes

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    Re: giving deer and bear meat to friends and family.

    Illegal? Isn't it?

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    Re: giving deer and bear meat to friends and family.

    Legal to give away free.

    Trickinosis is more than a tummy ache.
    No bear meat for my family. Couldn't live with my kids getting trichinosis.
    That stays with you for life.

    No bear meat for my family.

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    Re: giving deer and bear meat to friends and family.

    You can give meat away just can't trade it or sell it. I worry more that they well over cook meat and not be able to eat it and thus waste it.
    To each their own, but bear meat is favored over all other game at my house.
    Take a kid hunting its more rewarding than shooting an animal yourself!!

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    Re: giving deer and bear meat to friends and family.

    Quote Originally Posted by GotaGun View Post
    Legal to give away free.

    Trickinosis is more than a tummy ache.
    No bear meat for my family. Couldn't live with my kids getting trichinosis.
    That stays with you for life.

    No bear meat for my family.
    No risk of trichinosis if you cook it to 160F. Even if you get infected, the majority of cases don't even show symptoms and for the majority of those that do, the symptoms are tummy ache and muscle ache. It becomes dormant after a few weeks and though the cysts can stay in muscles for years, they are not noticable and generally get absorbed.

    1% of cases are fatal. I have not looked it up, but I expect e-coli infections are more dangerous.

    Fish, vegetables, etc carry parasites that can put more of a hurt on humans. Tapeworms creep me out the most. Cooking meat and washing veggies makes it all good.
    Last edited by caddisguy; 01-15-2016 at 08:06 AM.

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