Jamie Mackay: The Country host on the new initiative giving families in need wild game meat

A new partnership between the New Zealand Game Animal Council and Wild Game Recovery Trust has been launched to donate meat to households in need.

Using the Hunt and Share platform, the programme connects hunters, butchers and foodbanks while supporting safe and traceable meat donations from hill to table. 

The Country's Jamie Mackay explained further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jamie mckaye, host of the Countries with us good.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I edit, right, what.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Are the predictions for the GDT.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, we're getting there the end of the season now here,
So look, it's good. It's good despite everything that's going
on around the globe. At the moment, futures market is
picking the powders, whole milk powder, especially skim milk powder.
It's the flavor of the month at the moment, up
two percent. The fats, butter and cheese are flat and
we'll probably take flat. Interestingly, the futures for the current

(00:30):
season that we're just about to finish effectively at the
end of this month nine dollars eighty three twenty six
to twenty seven season futures are currently sitting at nine
to ninety. That is a great number to start off
a new season on. So it begs the question is
ten dollars on the cards for this season? If I
was a betting man, and I'm not because I didn't

(00:51):
want any money on the PGA Golf Tournament, I would
say we're just going to run out of runway before
the end of this month. But we're going to be
in the nines, which is still very acceptable.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Totally. Now, what's this about the wild game meat and
families who are in need?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
I think this is a really good initiative and there
are a number of groups working on it. But I
was reading about a new partnership between the New Zealand
Game Animal Council and the Wild Game Recovery Trust to
boost wild game meat donations. So this is the hunters
who go out, the weekend warriors, they go out and
get a stag or some deer or something like that,

(01:30):
and by using the hunt and Hunt and Share platform
at the program connects hunters, butcher's food banks. And the
main thing is they make it safe and traceable because
you've got to be a weather careful obviously with health
and safety on this sort of thing. So this initiative
is hoping to also cover the processing costs for this

(01:50):
donated wild meat such as venison. Now, the Wild Game
Recovery Trust founder and chair where does he get his
energy from? I don't know. Fed Farmers resident Wayne Langford,
who also founded the food charity Meet the Need set
the Game Changer NZ aims to grow the volume of
wild game meat being delivered to families in need, so

(02:13):
they donate it, they handle it, they record it, and
they pay for the whole thing now set. The Salvation
Army have said that meat is the most requested food
from Kiwi or from Kiwi families are using their services
game change in New Zealand. This outfit currently supports one
hundred and twelve food banks nationwide, including sixty one Salvation

(02:38):
Army food banks. The good thing about this thing, Heither,
is the more we can get hunters out into the
hills and getting the wild venison. I'm sure they can
do the same with pigs and all that sort of
stuff and get it onto people's plates. The better we
are because you're killing two birds or in this case
there and pigs with one stone, you're getting rid of
a pest, and you're feeding hungry families.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Great in this you're too right, Jamie. Thank you has
always really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Mate.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
We'll talk to you in two days. Jamie MacKaye hosts
of the Country.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
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