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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 244289" data-attributes="member: 605">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, bannedDumping 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.</blockquote>

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