Nub, I havn't eaten any red meat but venison, elk and buffalo for over the past 12 years. I have had no negative effects. I have zero concerns about the meat from any of these animals. Tell me how elk in captivity have spread CWD to wild whitetails if they can't range on the same agriculture and spread the disease? If elk, for example get out, which is very rare,they return rather quickly inside the fences. Because of there herd mentality and second the grains they are getting inside is easier to get and they don't know what to eat often times on the outside because it isn't what they have been eating for there entire life. I can't make the same claim for pen raised deer, but I would assume the same behavior. Also, the Professors point about sending your deer brain off to be tested before you consume is moronic. The maximum capacity of the only testing facility in the midwest (Iowa) is 15,000 a year. Wisconsin hunters alone shoot 300,000 + a year. They would have to build at least twenty of these research facilities in our state alone to handle the test load. The already over burderns Wisconsin( 3rd highest in the US) won't stand for it so hunters venison will be 100% gaurenteed. Also, the anti-hunters and the left wing media are going to eat this up.

Beyond that, if you think you are at "ground zero" in Mt.Horeb , think again. CWD is more than likely statewide, however more so in the bottom 3/4 of the state. But if CWD has been around for 30-40 years and we are just becomming more more focused on it, how come we havn't had an explosion of venison eaters being negatively affected health wise by CWD?

Do what you want, but until the research is sound that determines that CWD is being passed on to humans, I'm eating my venison and ranch raised elk.

I just heard on the news that of the 500 shot, they have 12 confirmed cases of CWD or 2.4% of those tested ? Is that correct?

Remi700