The reserve near us was forced to euthanize all of his herds of white tail, mule deer and elk.
Now as we are in the adjacent county, we have to have deer taken on our property tested for CWD the first three days of the hunting season. After that it's voluntary. It's one of those things where they say, Oh we really don't think that CWD is transmitted to humans but don't eat the meat from any infected animal. DUH! Prion disease, mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease, what ever they want to call it on any given day cannot be eliminated from meat by cooking or freezing. We read one study where a group of hunters that gathered once a year for a game fry had a large number of attendees contract prion disease. Over a course of 20 years 12 were diagnosed with the disease and the only thing they had in common was that they had attended this game banquet. DH read the report and has been trying to find it again. Scary stuff though.
We have a tornado watch till 1AM here. Storm have been rumbling through all evening. Nothing severe thank goodness but lots of rain and rumbles. Kind of late in the year for this stuff but then I reminded DH that the Washington IL tornado happened on November 13.
Now as we are in the adjacent county, we have to have deer taken on our property tested for CWD the first three days of the hunting season. After that it's voluntary. It's one of those things where they say, Oh we really don't think that CWD is transmitted to humans but don't eat the meat from any infected animal. DUH! Prion disease, mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease, what ever they want to call it on any given day cannot be eliminated from meat by cooking or freezing. We read one study where a group of hunters that gathered once a year for a game fry had a large number of attendees contract prion disease. Over a course of 20 years 12 were diagnosed with the disease and the only thing they had in common was that they had attended this game banquet. DH read the report and has been trying to find it again. Scary stuff though.
We have a tornado watch till 1AM here. Storm have been rumbling through all evening. Nothing severe thank goodness but lots of rain and rumbles. Kind of late in the year for this stuff but then I reminded DH that the Washington IL tornado happened on November 13.
