mistoferin
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There are several possible reasons why your burger has made you sick. The most likely culprit is improper food handling, as has already been stated. If your venison came from a hunt and not from farm raised venison, you have to keep in mind that it is meat in it's purest form. It is not full of antibiotics and preservatives, has not been radiated...or any of the other crap they do to commercially produced animal products. This makes proper handling of the meat...from kill to freezer to table to plate....even more important. Other factors that can have an influence is the habitat where the deer was taken. Is it a deer that has been living on crops such as corn, beans and alfalfa? Or did it come from a deep woods area where it lived on bark and acorns? The environment from which the deer comes has a significant impact on the health of the deer and the quality of the meat. Was the deer properly processed at kill? Were the internal organs immediately removed? Was the deer taken during warmer weather and not processed as qucikly as it should have been? Or was it taken during colder weather and allowed to hang and age in the proper temperature enviornment? Also, I can tell you from someone who is an avid hunter and eats venison on a very regular basis...on the off years where only one deer is taken and it doesn't last through the next season...there is a time period when you begin eating the next year's kill that I limit myself on amount because the change can be upsetting to the stomach. Venison is an extremly low fat, high protein meat and sometimes too much, too soon can kind of shock the system. edited to add: Because you stated that it was burger, that also tells me that other meat was added to the venison. Venison alone is too low in fat content to make a proper burger and the little fat there is on venison is normally discarded as that is where most of the "gamey" taste comes from. Usually a pork sausage or beef fat is added. This could also add to the list of possibilities of bacteria developing due to improper handling.
< Message edited by mistoferin -- 4/2/2006 5:04:53 PM >
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