Officials Ok Eating Venison Despite Finding Prions in Deer Muscle

[IGBT]

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In 2002 and 2003, the DNR tested about 500 deer in every county of the state. At that level of testing, the agency concluded it could with 99 percent confidence detect the disease at a level of 1 percent. The disease has been found in Dane, Iowa, Rock, Columbia, Green, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette, Richland, Sauk and Walworth counties.

In 2005, the agency beefed up testing in northeastern Wisconsin, and it will do the same in west-central Wisconsin this year and in northern Wisconsin in 2007.

In addition, in recent years, the DNR has sampled deer in Portage County, where a Plover deer farm has produced 20 positive deer.

Testing every deer killed in Wisconsin would be "unpractical and unrealistic," Crossley said. During the nine-day gun season last fall, hunters shot an estimated 312,519 deer, according to the agency.

 

[dderidex]

So people know what you are talking about

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: IGBT
In addition, in recent years, the DNR has sampled deer in Portage County, where a Plover deer farm has produced 20 positive deer.

Great. This means the deer farmer is feeding the deer processed scraps from deer butchering. One loose deer probably introduced the prions into the wild.

 

[gnumantsc]

I say ban American Deer from the food chain and we'll block our Canadian borders to your infected meat.. Notice how when none of our infected catlle goes into the food chain there is a ban just to make american farmers happier with potentially dangerous meat.

You never hear about Mad Cow in the US because the media will silence it in the US. Although Japan did test 3800KG of US Beef that was imported and it tested positive and they burned it all up.

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: IGBT
In addition, in recent years, the DNR has sampled deer in Portage County, where a Plover deer farm has produced 20 positive deer.

Great. This means the deer farmer is feeding the deer processed scraps from deer butchering. One loose deer probably introduced the prions into the wild.

No it does not. This has been around for quite some time (over 10 years) and has been seen in wild deer population. Just do a search for "Chronic Wasting Disease" (CWD). You had never even heard the term prion or mad cow disease when this started being tracked in the U.S..

 

[PingSpike]

Great, now WTF am I going to eat?

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Great, now WTF am I going to eat?

..I recall a story in a NRA publication 10 years or so ago and they were warnring about a breakout of "blue tongue" among deer in Calif.Wa.and Or. I recall seeing deer in N.Calif back then that were obviously sick..they wouldn't move out of the road..we had to drive around em. And now this. But there's also a problem with the Elk in Wyoming. Gov.shooters have been culling heards and burning them in open pit incenerators on the plains. Many blame the outbreak in Wy.on imported "Red Deer" used to populate deer farms.