Our Plan
More than one in five Oklahoma children don’t get the food they need. In fact, Oklahoma has one of the worst food insecurity ratings in the nation. However, hunters and deer processors help provide hungry families with nutritious meat when they participate in the Hunters Against Hunger Program. And with financial support from the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Foundation, a hunter’s donation of fresh venison comes at no cost to the hunter or processor.
The Wildlife Department’s Hunters Against Hunger program is a cooperative program between hunters, meat processors and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) to provide quality venison to hungry Oklahomans. The program allows hunters who legally harvest a deer in Oklahoma to donate the meat. Participating meat processors grind the meat into packages and then work with a network of food pantries to receive and distribute the venison. Just 42 pounds of boneless meat from a 120-pound field dressed deer provides 168 servings of high-quality meat.
