I know this topic has been argued to death but I am having a problem deciding what to do and would like some input.

I have grown up eating anything that I hunt with the exception of praire dogs and coyotes.

I am leaving for Wyoming in Oct. for my first trip west to hunt mule deer and antelope around the Big Horn Mountains. Many of the areas in my hunting area are chronic waste disease areas or border chronic waste disease areas. Iowa only allows deboned meat and cleaned skull plates to be brought back into the state.

I have read all there is to read about CWD and still can not decide whether to eat the meat or not. I know you can have it checked if you drop the brain off at a testing spot and wait up to 12 weeks. This is one option.

My questions are would you eat the meat knowing what we do about CWD?

Would you feed it to your 3 year old?

" Anyone can be a father, but it takes a real man to be a Dad"

Tough call
I think I would drop it off and wait the 12 weeks just to be shure.
I have been told that humans can't get cwd from eating the meat but would I take that chance with my cildren?
No.

SF

Since I am going on the trip with you, I have also pondered this question. My first instinct is to eat it. If the good Lord wants me to die eating wild game, so be it I guess. Yes, I don't want to leave my wife and kids, but I don't want to live scared to eat. I don't think that the chances are any different than that of smoking or drinking. I believe those two have been confirmed killers, and millions of Americans take part in the habits. Since there are testing sites on the meat, I do believe that I will have my game tested. It will be a bit of a wait to eat the meat, but the wait should be worth it.