CWD questions

I grew up using a processor exclusively. I stopped abruptly with the entry of CWD in MS. Pain in the arse? It takes some time. I don’t expect hunting to be “easy,” so to me and my family, this has actually increased our enjoyment and appreciation of the animal.

My view on CWD is it has been around since the 70's, and I have not heard of it passing to one person that we know of. So until it can be proves to pass to humans I will be more concerned for the effects on the deer herd than consumption.

People have been eating CWD infected meat in Colorado and Wyoming for years. Not a big worry to me.
We have deaths every year from eating raw oysters, yet many of us still enjoy them.

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dangle a bunch of federal funding in front of state agencies if they can demonstrate that it’s somehow worse or more of a threat in their area

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You don’t think these incentives might have been related to the initial development of the viewing of this as a problem?

If it was truly as bad as everyone claimed the herds would have been totally destroyed in the older states by now. As someone stated earlier you would see a long history of documented deaths à la oysters.

Neither has happened.

It’s a scam to suck at the government tit. Anyone scared of this probably wore their COVID mask in the car by themselves.

CWD has been around since forever since it occurs in cervids. There are zero instances of a human contracting CWD from eating venison.

The hysteria behind CWD is nothing more than bureaucracy perpetuating a 'crisis' in the name of garnering more federal money to 'combat' it.

CWD is very similar to Scrapie in sheep and goats. It's another type TSE prion disease.

Scrapie much like CWD has never shown a jump to humans in natural conditions. Unlike CWD Scrapie is able to be traced because of the tagging program through the USDA. Since they can trace, they can eradicate that heard and control the spread.

Wild Cervids cannot be traced or eradicated like has been done with scrapie, so research is necessary to investigate into ways that it is spread and can be controlled.

No one seems to have a good solution to prevent spreading or a good assessment of the spreading vectors. Only solutions so far are stop supplemental feeding and test animals.


The alarm over CWD comes from two things. 1. The potential of jumping species like mad cow disease did. 2. Potential decimation of the wild cervid herds.

It's not a scam. It's disease that's worth researching because of the long incubation periods without showing clinical signs and fatal nature of the disease.

Claiming it is a scam is a dumb as claiming it'll turn everyone to zombies.

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Only solutions so far are stop supplemental feeding and test animals.

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Will you relegate one deer to one watering hole? Scrapes? Licking Branches? I can guarantee you more than one deer will feed at the same location on a small food plot. You get that first white oak dropping and you'll have a dozen deer under it together eating. Are you going to stop a buck from moving 20-30 miles during the rut?

Testing is a pointless waste of money, especially when the only resolution at this time is an overbearing governmental agency to come in and kill them all.

I see you didn't comprehend the qualifying statement before that sentence you quoted.

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No one seems to have a good solution to prevent spreading or a good assessment of the spreading vectors

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There are no good solutions right now, which is why it needs to be researched.

White tail herds with 35% disease rate show an annual population decease of 10.4%. As disease level increases the population will decrease. That's not a scam or a fake disease.

Latest research suggests killing more bucks to slow the spread. Will increasing bucks killed be acceptable to state DNRs and hunters who want to have more bucks?

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The issue with that is this is a misfolded prion that occurs in cervids. It's been occurring since there has been cervids.

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This isn’t a known fact and is a big reason why people are tempted to throw money at it. CWD first appeared in captive mule deer at a research facility. Entirely possible that it didn’t exist in that particular form without some deer farm adjacent frickery creating it, and the widespread implications on wild populations aren’t known. I agree it’s been around a long time without a confirmed jump to people or wiping out all deer, but those are still valid concerns.