re: CWD detections by Parish.

Glyphosates binding to cations in the soil especially Manganese causes a lot of changes at the electromagnetic level in organisms. It's believed it's a possibility that that binding allows the prion to mutate leading to diseases like CWD. There are a few questioning that now, Dr. Don Huber and Jason Snavely are two of the people more in the public eye discussing it.

Weather it's true or not I have no earthly idea but with all of the known stuff that Glyphosate causes nothing would surprise me. Un natural chemicals are going to change things some for the intended better but some un planned consequences almost always occur.

This is an excperpt of a study by Dr. Michael W. Fox in 2020, "Chronic Wasting Disease:Anthropogenic? Containable?" discussing CWD and information on it.

"What causes prions to become malformed like a mutation, has not yet been determined. Prions can be passed out in bodily fluids and are in the soil and vegetation and are resistant to conventional methods of sterilization. Mosquitoes, ticks and other insects feeding off infected cervids may spread CWD. Infective prions have been found in dust and may be spread also by wind currents. ( 8).

Practices that may facilitate CWD prion contamination and accumulation include deer and elk farming, mineral licks and planting feed for deer by private land-owning deer hunters. Normal prions can be affected by metals (9), possibly being damaged by hunters’ lead shot when ingested by deer or in their bodies after surviving after being shot. Twenty million metric tons of lead bullets were fired in the United States in the 20th century (10).

Since EMFs can damage yeast prions, (11) the electromagnetic fields and non-ionizing radiation from cell phone towers and power lines may also cause prion malformations. Also, widely used herbicides, Monsanto’s “Roundup” (glyphosate) in particular, may play a role in the genesis of spongiform encephalopathies. It is widely used in agriculture and in forest management to reduce vegetation for fire-prevention. Glyphosate chelates all cations, making them biologically unavailable, (12).

An oxide of manganese destroys prions (13). Manganese deficiency in soils, via chelation of manganese by glyphosate, may therefore serve to increase the viability and longevity of prions that cause diseases such as CWD {and other spongiform encephalopathies} in the soil. In sum, soil type and especially mineral and humus content affect the nutritive value of vegetation and therefore the health of cervids consuming same. Notably, various prions are destroyed in soils with high humic acid content (14). Prions bind to montmorillonite and whole soils, remain orally infectious, and, in most cases, increased the oral transmission of disease compared to the unbound agent. Certain soils may therefore contribute to environmental spread of CWD by increasing the transmissibility of small amounts of infectious agent in the environment. (15)."

Is any of this true? I have no idea but it's worth thinking about and watching for more research. I think we are at hypothetical stage on a lot of things with CWD but I am trying to research everything I can to help better understand.