Would You Eat This Deer?
#1
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Typical Buck
Joined: Apr 2011
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From: Northern WI
In SW. WI a guy got an 11 pt buck. Butchered it up, wrapped, sausage, the whole works. Then got a positive CWD test result back. He chucked the meat. Would you? Not trying to start something here, I am just wondering if any have eaten a CWD pos deer. See http://www.jsonline.com/sports/outdo...360172381.html for the story.
#3
I wander if he processed it himself. Specifically the sausage, around here if you have summer sausage made at the local processor you dont get you own meat back so that would mean someone else would end up with the cwd positive meat and not even know it.
#5
There's a long incubation time with CWD, and although the claim is that it can't be transmitted to humans, i would not eat a deer infected with CWD! The prion does not die easily, it goes on and on and on!
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Nontypical Buck
Joined: Jun 2010
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From: VA.
Absolutely not. The best way to not contract CWD is to avoid the source(s) of transmission as best you can-as well as areas. While it's after the fact, now, the processing utensils would also be a cause for concern due to potential for cross-contamination.


