Hunters been giving possibly diseased venison to the pantries.

Prion diseases are so awful and the proteins so unpredictable that scientists take extraordinary precautions against infection when studying them in the lab. Patrick Bosque, a neurologist at the University of Colorado in Denver, studied prions in hamsters and mice, which do not appear to be transmissible to people. Yet he routinely wore disposable gloves, shoe covers and a gown, and avoided carrying his lab notebook or other potentially contaminated material out of the lab. Whenever he conducted a procedure that might spray or splash prions, he worked in a special hood to shield his face and upper arms. "Then you're going to tell me I'm going to eat deer?" Bosque asked. "I definitely would not eat deer I thought had been infected."


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.

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

Bosque believes no one knows enough about CWD -- more commonly known as mad deer -- to say that eating venison is safe. "If it was very transmissible, we'd know it," he says. "But if it was somewhat transmissible, like BSE [bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow] in England, it would be hard to know."

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

Playing the Blame Game with Mad Deer and Game Farms

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


MAD DEER DISEASE - A SLOW GOODBYE

http://www.purefood.org/Meat/utahcjd.cfm

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[1957stan]

Well don't lose sleep over it D.C...

I love that statement..We know most don't eat their deer...Very funny, you sound so stupid it's pathetic.. If indeed all these so called killers are out there just to kill,why would they bother to take it to the pantries?? all you have to do is buy another license.. let it rot in the woods. but that doesn't happen does it? They touch it with their dirty hands...ha-ha..

 they always advise wearing gloves for any meat handling genious..

[MadDeerDisease]

You make no sense whatsoever and have nothing factual to prove your point so you use absurdity.

What a waste of my time

[trulyheaven777]

Yeah, that was true....about twenty-five years ago. Non-toxic shot laws have been in place that long. Yes, you idiot. Do your research from somewhere besides PETA. You guys are so far from relity it's dangerous. You need to share a large padded cell.

[chadhub]

who is the hunter too squeamish to eat there kill. plus by your talk its in brain and upper spinal cord. i didnt know thats the only part homeless could eat. u could only catch mad cow by eating brain

[brigaddiga]

hey if i could kill does were i am i would cause they probably taste better. plus i try not to shoot the largest deer possible i shoot it if its leagle to shoot the little ones taste better anyway.

[Aloverssoulz]

What do you mean "so called killers"?. They are killers. Their nazi's.

[MadDeerDisease]

Thats because you "mad brain" cannot find it. I find so many of them when I google "Mad deer disease and hunting".

Yes of course its easy to "give" something you don't want isn't it?

[MadDeerDisease]

DNR should be held responsible for Deer vehicle accident injuries and death as well as any humans at the pantries who have died, got sick or will die from disease that is similar to Alzheimer for prions will mimic it.

[MadDeerDisease]

You are absolutely right. Not only for the trophy but for more females to give birth to twins and triplet. No one wants the doe to be killed but if they were going to kill they should do it right and be done with not this year after year "overpopulation" which caused deer vehicle accident.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Hunters also do this with the fowl they shoot. Many of whom spend a lot of time in marshes eating shiny lead shot from previous years shootings. The lead contamination tends to be high with these birds, so the hunting lobby tries to look like humanitarians by donating them to food banks. Meanwhile state agencies try to avoid testing them for lead.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

For years state agencies have been encouraging the killing of males over females. This is what you do if you want to keep the population trending upward. Deer aren't monogamous so keeping a mostly-female population means more potential births.

Not that i think the deer populations need regulating.