I do have venison sitting in the freezer waiting for a night where it's just me and my husband!
Mmmmm, venison... My brother & his wife in the US eat venison (that they 'gathered'

themselves) instead of beef, pork, red meats, etc. They usually have a big freezer full of it! Not to start a big hooha (please!) but their pt of view is that since man has pretty much killed off (environmentally or otherwise) most of what used to be deer's natural predators, there are too many deer around. When the herds are too many, the deer can die (instead) from a terrible wasting disease as well as there being genetic abnormalities & so on. The last deer that my SIL shot had no male OR female organs.
