ORIGINAL: buckskinnerchris
If what you say is true then why are there almost no deer processors that take the whole deer anymore and why is it that the lockers are required to process the deer individually although all the deer tested in Iowa have tested negative? Have you actually bothered to look at the science behind CWD? It is not hogwash as you might want to beleive. Ispoke with the head scientist at USDA that is studying CWD and he statednormal cooking of the meat infected with CWD would not kill the disease unless you cooked it at a very high temp which would make the meat unedible. I was told to not cut across the spinal cord , spine or any bone. When I removed the head only do this with a saw and/or knife I would not be using on anything else until it was properly sanitized with bleach.
Could you also tell me why the USDAhas built a new facilty (fall 2005)totally dedicated to the CDW disease?
What scientific basis can you state that totally negates the concern over CDW?
I'll be anxiuosly awaiting your answer because it would please me tono end if what the scientist stated to me was totally wrong. But I still would have to wonder why they built this building if we had nothing to fear.
The reason is this as I used to process venison in a butcher shop:
Bucther shops were nto required to clean all equipment after processing each deer. Before the scare it was easier to take the animal in whole and process it that way because the threat of CWD was so minimal. When the scare came in effect it became more hectic to clean the equipmet after each individual deer. Also again, CWD is a neurological disease that impairs the deers brain to reckonzie that it is starving and then begins to attackother parts of the deers nero system. Before the scare we had no problems cutting through the spine or cutting off the head. Now more places are requiring that only the meat be brought in because its safer, sort of speak and causes alot less hectic processing. CWD is a scare tactic and will not effect the way I hunt nor the way we process our own venison. I have yet to hear anyone dying from eating meat froma CWD deer, elk, bisson, turkey, horse, cow, chipmunk, squirrell, rat, cat, dog, etc...you get the point. Oh and dont post that article of the two people that apparently died from eating an elk with CWDthat they shot out west.Autopsys showed that they died from othercauses.