Ever find cactus needles in meat?

[kpk]

I was just cutting some meat and found half dozen or so cactus needles in a piece. Now I'm paranoid. I obviously threw that chunk away but am concerned there may be more that I didn't see. We took quarters off directly into game bags and then layed them on the ground. Obviously one of them got layed down on one those stupid 2-3" SOBs. I kept everthing that was in that game bag seperated- but now what?

 

[sierracharlie338]

Pretty standard here is south Texas. Normally found when skinning and quartering. Pluck them out and keep going.

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

Keep looking is all you can do. Here we occasionally find black locust thorns in bucks that have been fighting. If not festered up too bad we just cut around them.

 

[OldInNV]

I was just cutting some meat and found half dozen or so cactus needles in a piece. Now I'm paranoid. I obviously threw that chunk away but am concerned there may be more that I didn't see. We took quarters off directly into game bags and then layed them on the ground. Obviously one of them got layed down on one those stupid 2-3" SOBs. I kept everthing that was in that game bag seperated- but now what?

I find them in chukar here in NV at times, but not often.

 

[MattB]

No, but I found a pinky-width stick in a turkey breast once.

 

[Seth]

Barbary sheep/aoudad here in NM have their shanks full of them. We pluck them out while skinning and go over them thoroughly while butchering and have had no ill effect.