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Sorry Fritz, but 65 million or 93 million, it doesn't matter. The point still stands that these people don't even know how CWD is spread, but have declared CWD to be some kind of deer and elk Armageddon. Thanks for the read, but that whole article was about how a bunch of "alphabet soup" supposed wildlife organizations passed some CWD resolutions. No evidence or data of any kind. Just loud talk and hot air. Which is in no way a substitute for scientific study. Show me some evidence!! Don't show me a pile of grand standing fear mongers making declarations about what they think is truth. Question: If this same group all of a sudden declared any pen raised elk or deer meat to be a hazard to human health with the exact same amount of evidence they have on CWD being hazardous, would you jump right up and agree?? Again, NO EVIDENCE presented in any of that article that shows me CWD is even a threat.
Ah yes, the resolutions. So when did you get to vote? You didn't. Neither did I. The elk deer and exotics industries did not write this. The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies has hired a lobbyist, Jay McAninch from New York, to take the lead on CWD in DC to advance their legislative agenda for CWD research, surveillance and monitoring.
Since 1998, the elk deer and exotics have had our own CWD Herd Certification program. 100% mandatory testing, inventories from cradle to grave, paper on top of paper, several forms of ID, risk assessments, trace backs, trace forwards, even retention of the meat at the butcher shop until the results come back negative. Carcasses had to be kept separate until the results were known. Certainly wouldn't want to sell a consumer a positive.
Our industries are being asked to support this Bill even though we didn't write any of it.
On the flip side concerning wildlife, you may have 20 deer carcasses processed in one day and "what if" a positive is co-mingled in the batch? "What if" some of that is donated to a wildlife feed. "What if" someone eats at a wild game feed and later claims they got Jacobcreutzfeld disease there? "What if" deer hunters stop hunting deer? "What if" deer populations get completely wiped out by disease? "What if" or what will that do to Game and Fish budgets? Now I'm not spoofing anything, but a little fear can spur Congress into action to get some money. And we "do" need money for research. The surveillance and monitoring parts get sketchy.
My best guess:
Baiting will be banned.
Feeding will be banned.
Transporting carcasses interstate, banned.
Transporting carcasses intrastate, banned
Dumping bones or hides on public land, banned.
Dumping bones anywhere other than an approved landfill, banned.
Making sausage at any State licensed custom or custom exempt facilities, banned.
Use of deer lures or scents made from deer urine, banned.
TSC has pallets of deer corn. Can't say deer corn. Banned.
Some of you guys may be asking yourselves, "hey, when do I get to vote?" The wildlife society and the ND wildlife federation presented the Bill to ban baiting a few years ago. They are non-profits so they can do it for the ND Game and Fish who cannot introduce Bills. You guys hammered them. They won't be making that mistake again.