Venison sausage and mad deer disease /CWD - What going to happen to the people at the pantries?

How many infected deer have hunters been dumping to the pantries.? These disease is a slow death that can take up to 10 years to show up. Its not the "sports" hunters that has to be concerened because the "sports" hunters do not eat the meat but the pantries that they "give" to must have consumed a lot of disease non-usda inspected carcass.




Mad Cow, Mad Deer and the Mad Bureaucrats
http://www.maddeer.org/madmadmad.html.

What the government isn't telling you about mad deer disease.

"Some hunters too squeamish to eat their kill are donating the venison to pantries for the homeless. "
http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/21/maddeer/


Now, Mad Deer

"Unfortunately, the states in which mad-deer infection is highest also rely heavily on the sale of hunting licenses, making them loath to publicize the possibility that eating venison might turn your brain into a sponge. Currently, detection of the disease requires waiting for an animal to drop dead under suspicious conditions and then relying on hunters or game farmers to call in a vet for a post-mortem rather than simply shipping the carcass to the rendering plant.

"Obviously, when the animals are dying of the disease, it's much too late to have prevented the disease from getting from one animal to another," says Dr. Mary Jo Schmerr, lead scientist of prion diseases at the Agricultural Research Service. "If you could detect it before they show these clinical signs, you could remove them from the flock or herd."

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200101/lol3.asp


Seem like the hunting is to blame for CWD/Mad Deer Disease

"The epidemic seems to have been exacerbated, then, by the close proximity of deer and elk on game farms and wildlife research facilities, and/or in areas where people bait and feed wild animals for hunting."
http://slate.msn.com/id/2095997/
http://www.avonhistory.org/bug/deer2.htm



The possibility of prion disease in deer and elk populations should not be ignored

http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/maddeer.html

While health officials have not recommended a ban on deer hunting, they are closely monitoring deer hunters and their kills. Hunters might be at risk when they contact blood or tissue while gutting animals, or from eating the meat, Brown said.

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://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030521deer0521p5.asp


The shocking news that the US epidemic of 'mad deer' disease has jumped
from the West to the Midwest and into the huge white tailed deer population
in Wisconsin has all players scrambling and pointing fingers. States that
depend on money from big game licenses are assuring the public that chronic
wasting disease (CWD) cannot infect and kill humans, although there is no
proof for that claim and some evidence to the contrary. The deer and game
farm industry blames state wildlife agencies, claiming the disease came from
wild animals, but in fact the evidence points to the game farm industry as
the culprit, spreading the disease by the virtually unregulated trafficking
in farmed deer and elk. And, the Colorado Division of Wildlife is calling on
all states to test game farms for the disease, much too late into a
disastrous epidemic. Source: Denver Post, March 4, 2002


http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/wideer030702.cfm

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[DeliberateCruelty]

Probably because FNB is about peace and non-violence and to end the oppression of human and non-human animals who suffers wrong. Sports wildlife killing is a billion dollar industry and whitetails are the biggest money maker so it don't matter what diseases the animals have so long as there is a place to "give" the carcass. Gee, what would they do without the pantries? Hunters will have to eat the meat which means that less tags would be sold and business will plummet.

[hoghuntertx1]

hunters for the hungry i have given several deer to the program.

[DeliberateCruelty]

Easy to "give" what you don't want isn't it?

[hoghuntertx1]

i would like to have taken it but they could have used it more than me.

[DeliberateCruelty]

Why is it that when hunters "give" the bodies of the animals they have destroyed for fun/trophy and sports with the risk of dangerous disease even bovine TB and other Pathogens its "nobel" but have vegetarians who speak out against the war and also feed the hungry through out America and the world gets into trouble by the government and calls them "terrorist" when they attempt to feed homeless people vegetarian food. I am talking about Food Not Bombs.

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[DeliberateCruelty]

You mean the lowlife human waste "enjoy" killing animals and dumping the body to the pantries after they were done their fun right?

[BIGSKYHAL50]

For you info, we utilize all our deer meat. Some people do enjoy hunting and give to pantries.

[BIGSKYHAL50]

gee, but it keeps hungry people unhungry and is a good use of deer. Better than road kill, by a long shot. When they test, they will find little if any problems.

[DeliberateCruelty]

I don't understand with the hunters talking big about "mmm venison" why don't they take the meat and give to families and friend , shove them in the freezer so they can eat for years? Hunters kill because they enjoy snuffing out a life not for food or survival.

+ instead of poisoning the pantries there are 150 billion pounds of edible food wasted in America every year why don't you and your killing buddies start a food salvage program and "give" to poor rather then killing and dumping?

[DeliberateCruelty]

"MILLIONS of pounds of meat goes to poison poor people"

Hunter deer meat "given" to the pantries are not usda inspected and not tested for CWD except in Wisconsin which I have learned because its so bad now and getting worse that so many deer are being killed to "control the diseases" and those are the carcass "given" to the pantries after being tested (started recently).