Would you eat a CWD-positive animal?

[jryoung]

I agree that the car crashes are apples to oranges comparison. And even the comparison of the risk of eating wings with salmonella is not pertinent because OPs question was about knowingly positive meat. We all wouldn't eat meat knowingly that contained salmonella.

However, we do know that eating artifical sweeteners, artifical colors, blue light from screens, seed oils etc (edit: tobacco in any form I bet is another one many use daily but wont quit) are scientifically proven to causes health issues some severe.

My question to everyone saying I won't eat it bc there might be a risk or I feed my family that meat; you are making sure to take all those other scientifically known poisons out of your diet and families diets right?

Ultimately you do you and who cares what someone else thinks. But to the people who use those excuses you better be living a 100% clean lifestyle.

Strange that you acknowledge the apples to oranges comparison for car crashes, but then lists out several more apples to oranges comparisons. Harmful items for sure, but all effects are reversible and only fatal with continued, prolonged use. As opposed to remotes, but unknown risk that is 100% fatal.

 

[seeth07]

So what's your point?

That if people didn't eat cwd positive deer, a very large significant portion of the annual harvest in the state would be bound for the dumpster. So are we going to support killing deer just for the fun of it then?

 

[WIbiggame]

Harmful items for sure, but all effects are reversible and only fatal with continued, prolonged use.

So you are stopping using them because we know if you keep consuming them you are probably going to develope some negative affects?

 

[WIbiggame]

Let's do a hypothetical: And say the money dries up and they stop testing for CWD. Is everyone going to stop eating deer/elk because they might be positive or are you going to just go about life like everyone did before the internet and testing?

 

[Hem]

I'm getting my deer tested from this year .
First time, but only because there have been cases in the area.
The above is a valid question.

 

[Archer86]

Hell no. I'll wait for more data and evidence to support that it can't transfer to humans. Although I have to admit that when someone has a pile of summer sausage I can't be 100 percent sure what's all in it but still eat it. But I'll ask if animal was shot in CWD area. Bottom line is I at least won't eat what is know to be sick animal

Unfortunately this data will probably never be presented to show it doesn't present a risk to human transmission. I had herd a podcast where someone asked if you know it presented no risk to humans would you still care as much and I belive that is the reason we will never have that data because for a majority of hunters it wouldn't matter as much if there was a way to prove there is no risk...

In high positive areas I tend to test just for piece of mind and wouldn't eat a known positive deer either. I think most over look the fact that alot of people take there deer into the processor and with how many deer come through with unknown result until they are done alot of hunters probabaly had there cwd free meat tainted with some positive meat during processing...

 

[schmalts]

That if people didn't eat cwd positive deer, a very large significant portion of the annual harvest in the state would be bound for the dumpster. So are we going to support killing deer just for the fun of it then

That if people didn't eat cwd positive deer, a very large significant portion of the annual harvest in the state would be bound for the dumpster. So are we going to support killing deer just for the fun of it then?

I'd donate it to someone on here or the likes of them that said they would eat it. There's also places like the big cat rescue that can't get enough. Lions and tigers don't care. My buddy in a bad county takes a few there every year

 

[seeth07]

meat tainted with some positive meat

Let's be clear about one thing: the meat isn't the issue.

Just like mad cow turning into vCJD, the transmission occurs when spinal fluid or cord or brain tissue is consumed. Of the 4 cases in the US total, 2 were from people that visited a country where they had a meal in which they willingly consumed brain.

 

[Birdbander]

I quit deer hunting in early 2000s for various reasons. This thread made me a bit curious as my area of Michigan was doing mandatory CWD testing until Covid, now it's voluntary. I live in the center of the most dense red dot area.
My veterinarian no longer hunts his nearby property.