What type of meats are considered venison?

Question

What type of meats are considered venison?

Answer 1

VENISON IS DEER MEAT...

there is no other meat that qualifies as venison.  only the Deer meat.

YES,  bambi.

Answer 2

If you come across the word "venison," ten to one it refers to deer. I guess it used to be any meat you got from hunting, but these days, we refer to that meat as "game" and specify the animal (boar, deer, pheasant, etc).  

Answer 3

Deer

Answer 4

Venison is the food term for deer just like beef is the food term for cow.

Answer 5

there is only one type of meat that is venison and that is deer.

Answer 6

Venison can describe meat of any animal killed by hunting. It was originally applied to any animal from the families Cervidae (deer), Leporidae (hares), and Suidae (wild pigs), and certain species of the genus Capra (goats and antelopes), such as elk, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, moose, reindeer/caribou, pronghorn, brown hare, arctic hare, blue hare, wild boar, and ibex, but its usage is now almost entirely restricted to the flesh of various species of deer.

Answer 7

Venison is Deer.

Venison roasts

venison sausage

venison oberle

venison ground

venison stew

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Answer 8

I would consider deer meat to be venison.  AKA:  Bambi

Answer 9

deer bambi doe buck

not just anything hunted paleeze

game is anything hunted

venison =deer

Answer 10

Venison used to be the term used for any game meat (deer, elk, moose...etcetera).  But now it refers to only deer meat.  Not sure why that is.  *shrugs*