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Jo Barrett

Jo Barrett

Australian chef and sustainable food innovator, 2024 GoodFood Guide Chef of the Year, executive chef at Surf Hotel, co-founder of Wildpie and Discovered Wildfoods.

Jul 31, 2026

16:42
Give us a sense of the sort of size of this, the feral deer population and also obviously the feral pig population as well.
16:50
So in Victoria, we'd have over a million deer.
16:53
And I feel like since working in the wild food industry and the meat industry, that's definitely growing.
17:00
And it's probably hard to put a number on it, but I know that it would be over a million in Victoria alone.
17:07
And there's quite a few different species of deer, which was another thing I didn't understand.
17:11
So we would have fallow and samba, reds.
17:14
Russa, hog deer, so quite a vast array of deer that really do span up the east coast into Tassie, across to South Australia, and they're starting to see them in Western Australia as well.
18:33
I mean, there's no reason to say that a Wenzel Schnitzel shouldn't be the sort of thing you buy ready crumb from your local supermarket.

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