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I am eating mine for sure. My wife and I live off venison year round with the exception of buying some chicken every now and again. If there is any risk of eating venison and contracting CWD/CJD my bet is the chance of getting bad food at a fast food joint is much greater. Besides if you smoke or chew you definitly have a better chance of getting cancer than you do coming down with CJD.

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I would be more inclined to eat if I didn't live at ground zero. The wife says "no way". If I score another 500 lbs of Moose meat, mine are going to who ever wants them, or in the DNR's dumpster. If I need the meat, I'll wait for the test.

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nub, I'll shoot you a deer, trade ya fer some moose meat?????

I'll eat as many deer as I can put in my and my Dad's freezer. If I hunted in the CWD zone, they would go in the landfill/incinerator.

We'll know more in Feburary, March, April, when the results come in.

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I was reading the newspaper and it said 80% were not going to eat the venison this year. This was hunters and non hunters.. Sounds like they have scared a lot of them off.. I will eat what ever I shoot.. but will be paying close attention to the butchering process.

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Doug: Tell you what, that arrow I sent thru my last moose was money well spent. I've eaten a load of moose and given away over a whitetails worth, and I still have a bunch in the freezer. I have not bought any red meat since last summer. You should take me up on my offer next time I invite you for a BBQ.

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I;ll eat whatever I shoot !!!! we have 5 guys in our group, on;y one of which will shoot a doe if it's big enough. the rest of us shoot bucks only so I don't think we are going to come back loaded with venison anyways !!!

"If it sounds and looks too good to be true, it probably is !"
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I'm not tossing mine, but I'm not participating in earn-lots-of-bucks either.Check this --
Evidence of a molecular barrier limiting susceptibility of humans, cattle and sheep to chronic wasting disease.

Raymond GJ, Bossers A, Raymond LD, O'Rourke KI, McHolland LE, Bryant PK 3rd, Miller MW, Williams ES, Smits M, Caughey B. NIAID/NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT 59840,USA.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of deer and elk, and little is known about its transmissibility to other species. An important factor controlling interspecies TSE susceptibility is prion protein (PrP) homology between the source and recipient species/genotypes. Furthermore, the efficiency with which the protease-resistant PrP (PrP-res) of one species induces the in vitro conversion of the normal PrP (PrP-sen) of another species to the protease-resistant state correlates with the cross-species transmissibility of TSE agents. Here we show that the CWD-associated PrP-res (PrP(CWD)) of cervids readily induces the conversion of recombinant cervid PrP-sen molecules to the protease-resistant state in accordance with the known transmissibility of CWD between cervids. In contrast, PrP(CWD)-induced conversions of human and bovine PrP-sen were much less efficient, and conversion of ovine PrP-sen was intermediate. These results demonstrate a barrier at the molecular level that should limit the susceptibility of these non-cervid species to CWD.
PMID: 10970836 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

This from the NIH-NINDS. Talked to them yesterday.

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That is great news wdhc. Iam sure we wiil be hearing more about the chance of transmittence in the future.

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I hunt 70B, and have since '99. I'd bet a paycheck that they find CWD there after the testing this fall.

Are we going to eat it? ABSOLUTELY!!! There's no way in hades that I'm taking deer and NOT eating them. Why even shoot the things then?

JRW

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We are launching an ad campaign on the Packer Radio Network (70 radio stations) during packer games beginning Sept. 8, to get as much info out to the public as possible. We are co-sponsoring this with Safari Club International. The first ad features Gary Waterhouse. His dad was one of the 3 men the media led everyone to believe died from eating wild game. There is time to reverse the media hysteria.

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Seems to me I heard Gary give a statement while on his hunt in Alaska.

WDHC: Your email broke?

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I mostly hunt up near Menomonie,WI and Tomah and I WILL be eating my deer! Now, If I hunted in the "Hot Zone" I would have to think about that?????? Im not sure what I would be doing then. But I allready know my wife is freaking about it and said she wont eat anymore! Took me quite a few years to get her trained to eat venision and now this! Oh well...More for me I guess!

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He did the taping over the phone from Alaska. Email is fine but I've been out of town a lot lately.

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mom wont' let us eat it.

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I wil be hunting in the SW corner of the state and will be eating what I harvest. My wife may not, but that isn't anything new. I won't be taking as many tags this year, not because of CWD, But because I have a big duck hunting and pheasant hunt coming up and I only have limited freezer space. I still have an elk from Colorado (not worried about this meat either) and some venison from last year.

I really believe that CWD has been around , if not for decades,forever. I think it has been realized only through the technologies of testing and the extremely large quantities of deer in this state. We have had anywhere from 300,000-750,000 hunters in the Wisconsin woods for the past 30 years + and we haven't had any mass human brain afflictions from hunters or there families. I'm not an expert. I don't think there is one yet. But unless the scientists can prove there is a long term gestation period with these prions that affect humans.....I'M EATING MY VENISON !!!!!!

MC

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Ate fresh tenderloins last night, from a northern Wisconsin deer, without hesitation. My wife does not want to eat any till results come back from testing, Feb, March, or April. And she dosen't want our kids eating any til then either. It's not worth argueing about.

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Yes,I'm eating mine. Took my doe sunday morning and eating tenderloins tonight! I hunt in zone 70 in sauk county. I registered my doe in spring green, while there, more hunters came in from across the river in iowa county to register there deer. A sad sight it was, two button bucks and they didnt even dress them out!!! just wanted to earn there buck tags. I've heared of alot of this going on, and its not even in the eratication zone. Don't really know what to think of this,Yes the deer numbers must be kept in check but man what a waste.

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As I said earlier I will be eating mine, but my wife just said this weekend she isnt and dosent want my kids either!