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White Spots on Meat

gpb1111

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What are these white spots?

My old butcher only used butcher paper and this one uses a vacuum sealer.

Are these normal or not?


 

gpb1111

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On closer look, it appears to be throughout the meat. Not just on the surface.

Is this how it typically marbles?

I never really payed attention to the marble of deer meat in the past. I'd just unwrap the backstrap and immediately through it on the grill.


 

Jamie

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if they froze the meat bone-in and cut with a band saw, it could be bone dust. is that beef or venison?
 

MK111

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Cook it up well done and see it the spots get smaller or go away. To see if it's just fat spots.
Eat it then and let us know later if it makes you sick.
 

finelyshedded

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Never seen that before! Like Jamie said, it kinda looks like bone dust from sawing but it wouldn't be throughout the meat though.
 

giles

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Is this on all the packages or just this one? If one, just pitch it and grab another.

By the looks of the pic, some is floating in the blood as well. Looks like some sort of eggs to me.
 

Jamie

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based on the photo and your description, if it looks good and smells good otherwise, I'd eat it. I'd ask the butcher about it, too. I've butchered and vacuum packaged a lot of venison, but I've never seen anything like that.
 

Jackalope

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Couple key notes from that.

. A survey of 208 white-tailed deer from Ontario, Texas and Wisconsin showed 80% to be infected. Four of 16 white-tailed deer were found infected in a small survey in Michigan.

Domestic animals that are heavily infected may be condemned as unfit for human consumption. Ducks and rabbits are the species of Michigan wildlife that hunters and wildlife biologists are most likely to find infected with Sarcocystis. At this time so much is unknown about Sarcocystis that it is recommended that infected meat from ducks and rabbits not be used for human consumption or fed to cats and dogs




On one hand they say almost every deer has it. On the other they say not to eat it. Lol.