{"id":533633,"date":"2026-04-16T06:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533633\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:37:20","slug":"eat-deer-so-we-can-reduce-car-crashes-says-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533633\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat deer so we can reduce car crashes, says expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exact number of wild deer in the UK is not known, but the government estimates there are about two million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hooton believed if the population was not controlled, numbers could continue growing, the natural environment would suffer and disease among deer could spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that deer meat had good nutritional value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need a venison supply chain that can utilise all those animals being managed to protect the environment,&#8221; said Hooton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a product that is really sustainable, it&#8217;s really good value in some areas, some people sometimes perceive it as a niche type product and it is, but the values shouldn&#8217;t be over and above any other meat product you&#8217;re buying.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exact number of wild deer in the UK is not known, but the government estimates there are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-533633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}