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By the end of the year, venison tenderloin, venison leg and company should have found their way back into the catering trade. But lockdown number two ensured that the deer never left the innkeepers’ cold rooms. Or it didn’t even reach it.
Because the closure of restaurants and hotels caused the prices of game meat to enter the warehouse and, therefore, the largest market for the sale of local game meat to collapse completely. “Hunters have trouble bringing the game to man,” reports Florian Fritz, on the one hand a ranger in the Vienna woods and on the other the tenant of the monastery inn in Thallern (Lower Austria). At least at a fair price.
“Normally they give you between 2.90 and 3.20 euros per kilo of venison on the roof (open and headless),” explains Fritz. Currently it is from 1.80 to 2.20 euros. And the situation is also precarious for wild boars in the bark (that is, in the black hood): “It is usually around 1.50 euros per kilo. Now you get 45 to 75 cents. If you can find someone to pay for it. “
