Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

Imagine if you didn’t know whether you could feed your family. One in five Texas families don’t have to imagine.

We know that it [hunger] affects children, seniors, people who are chronically unemployed, temporarily unemployed… It’s a really extensive problem that’s affecting every corner of our state.

Celia Cole is the CEO of Feeding Texas—a statewide association that represents Texas’ food banks. Its program, Hunters for the Hungry, allows hunters to donate deer to feed hungry Texans.

It’s a great opportunity for hunters to give back to their communities. It also helps landowners manage their deer population. So, it’s a program that promotes environmental stewardship, at the same time it brings in a badly needed source of protein for the hungry families that we serve.

Hunters donate legally tagged and field-dressed white-tailed or mule deer at participating meat processors.

They contribute a small fee to cover the processing cost. That meal is then processed and distributed to the hunger relief agencies that we serve in that area.

Hunting licenses come with five deer tags. Perhaps earmark one for Hunters for the Hungry, and help provide healthy venison to Texans in need.

We are hopeful that potentially we’ll have hunters going out and doing more hunting, because they know that they now the opportunity to donate in this way.

Find donation details at passporttotexas.org.

The Wildlife Restoration program supports our series.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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Copy and paste the  following link into your browser for details about donating a deer to Hunters for the Hungry:

http://www.feedingtexas.org/get-involved/hunt/