Supplement feeding deer for large rack responsible for the spread of CWD/Mad Deer Disease

CWD/Mad Deer Disease spread by hunting

An Associated Press story speculates today that Wisconsin hunters, having killed deer in the area of the state known to be infected with mad cow-like Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), might have spread the disease around the state by taking carcasses back to their homes and dumping them in the environment. Yes, that is a possibility, but not the most obvious possibility. Feeding rendered byproducts is a much more obvious threat to spread CWD around the state, the nation and to other livestock. Extensive supplement feeding of wild deer to grow big antlers has gone on in Wisconsin's CWD eradication zone, and in fact all over much of the US. The supplements contain protein, minerals, and binders (fat), much of it from rendered slaughterhouse waste, the same stuff that amplified and spread mad cow disease in England. In Wisconsin in 1995 alone over 26,000 road-killed deer were rendered into meat and bone meal used in animal feed. Unlike Britain and Europe, the US still feeds billions of pounds of mammalian rendered byproduct back to livestock. As we document in our book Mad Cow USA, US feed regulations are so weak that cattle blood is used in calf feed. Such policies are inviting a disaster that could dwarf Britain's mad cow crisis since the US is the biggest meat producing country in the world.

At least seven people age 66 or younger -- all hunters or venison eaters -- are known to have died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob in the U.S. in the last nine years. The total number will never be known because there's no federal requirement that all cases be reported. Preliminary studies suggest, and some neurologists suspect, that CJD is more common than generally believed -- it's simply misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's. That raises the obvious question: How many people would die of chronic wasting disease before a doctor called it?

In a highly publicized case, three Wisconsin hunters who attended wild-game feasts died of neurological diseases. Two had Creutzfeldt-Jakob, one turned out to have another rare neurological ailment, Pick's disease. Tests are ongoing.

Another victim from Oklahoma died with a freezer full of venison. A 50-year-old Montana elk hunter died last summer; his brain tissue is now being analyzed at one of the world's foremost prion labs, at the University of California in San Francisco. Test results are pending.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did autopsies on three other deaths of people under the age of 31 -- from Utah, Oklahoma and Maine -- who died of CJD between 1997 and 2000. Two were hunters; a third was the daughter of a hunter.

Deer can be infected for several years before showing symptoms, so it is impossible for hunters to recognize infected animals. Symptoms include loss of weight, unusual behavior, excessive salivation and increased drinking and urination

http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/21/maddeer/index.html

Brain disease a slow goodbye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-oTl_7weng&feature=channel

Hunters been giving possibly diseased venison to the pantries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXBHdzFsChk

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[DeliberateCruelty]

CWD infected deer been found in W. VA and yes it has taken lives of venison eaters. Look at the link on video information.

[DeliberateCruelty]

"Indeed we might have

already seen the first human deaths from mad deer disease. Three years ago

two young Western hunters, Doug McEwen and Jay Whitlock, came down with

so-called classic or sporadic CJD in their late twenties and died. In

1996 Kevin Boss, a Minnesotan who hunted there and in western Wisconsin,

died of CJD at age forty-one. Mary Reilly of Waupaca died not long ago of

CJD at age forty-three. "

CONT

[DeliberateCruelty]

"I see you still neglect to inform people that the donated meat has to be processed in a government approved processing site"

This means nothing, the carcass obtain from murdered bodies of innocent sentient for "sports" are not USDA. Did you know they even take deer road kills in NJ (a deer herd created for hunters killing pleasure). So over all hunters are part of the road killed deer given to pantries. I will ask my niece to leave a video response.

[DeliberateCruelty]

oooo, and who may that be giving you that "information"?? Is that heyblome, aka Ikillanimals aka IKILLMEXICANS aka Susan aka tony and tons more channel he goes by and he is known to harrasse young childrens channel with obscenities and vulgarities. Is that who you are talking about?

[Downedworker]

I do wish you would get real facts before spouting off even thinly veiled comments. The meat isn't dumped. If it doesn't meet the approval of the inspected, licensed meat processing plant, then it is rejected. Kind of like your videos. And, remember, its all at the expense of the hunter.

[Downedworker]

I just recieved some very interesting information, along with a number of names she supposedly posts under. I'm so so busy, but if I can find the time, I will forward the info to you MnDeer.

[Downedworker]

I have never personally shot enough that I could spare any meat. I see you still neglect to inform people that the donated meat has to be processed in a government approved processing site. This does make a huge difference. Unlike the way you try to make it sound, only very good, quality meat is accepted by these places. And, don't forget, the terrible, ignorant killer also pays for the cutting, wrapping, and delivery. I knew you would want the facts.

[MnDeerHunter09]

Alright, thank you. I will try not to repeat myself on all of your accounts.

[MnDeerHunter09]

I have no idea what your other account name is. I was just wondering so I dont leave you the same reply on both of your accounts because I'm sure that gets old.

[DeliberateCruelty]

You figure it out : )