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I am also extremely curious about this. Thanks for bringing it up. Personally, I don’t see why there is so much push back on it. I have seen and heard people say CWD is a conspiracy to get rid of hunting, but given the state wildlife agencies literally run on hunting dollars and are actively in that research warning people about it, it seems illogical to think that they want to get rid of hunting because it would literally put the people at the agencies out of a job and end up with the agencies having no funding.I’m not gonna get into my opinions on the matter.
But I have to ask the question: what does one gain from denying CWD or the seriousness there of? And no, this is not a rhetorical question. I’m seriously curious.
Sorry, 1,800 F.1800C or 1800F?
I was speaking in Celcius. Hence the C. 1000 Celsius is 1832 fahrenheit.
While I dont know for fact. I doubt they are operating an incinerator at Ti smelting temp of 1800c or 3200f.
Even if you test every single one you still have no idea. There is no such thing as a negative test. Only not detected. That does not mean the deer is negative nor does it mean there are no prions in the meat.Unless you are testing every single deer you kill, you literally have no idea if one you shoot has cwd or not. I simply am not going to do that. Cleaned a few skulls for people a few years back. Guys would drop off a skull and be in a required testing zone. 2 weeks later they were shocked that their very healthy fat forkhorn mule deer had cwd.
So either test every single deer or simply know that sooner or later you are going to be eating one with cwd.
The "scam" is not that CWD doesn't exist. Yes, it exists. No one has denied that.Let's stay away from this topic. Whether or not someone believes or doesn't believe in those theories is highly tied to their political leaning. The topic is CWD not Covid.
These are not the same things, and it's an example of how bad humans are at instinctively judging statistical phenomena.For me it comes down to stats. There number of positive CWD deer consumed by people is unknown but probably well of into the 10s of thousands or maybe 100s of thousands. Not a single case transmitted to humans. There are so many other things to worry about. How many people say they would never eat CWD positive meat but text while driving? There is lots of research that shows a negative impact on health by drinking beer, how many people drink? You could go on and on. Lots of known risks people ignore but CWD people are terrified of. With that being said it is a threat to wildlife and I hope research continues.
If CWD crosses, and all of hunting as we know it today changes forever, it sure won't be my fault - at least not for lack of trying to follow any and all advice wildlife biologists have for me. I don't need that on my conscience.
I’m not gonna get into my opinions on the matter.
But I have to ask the question: what does one gain from denying CWD or the seriousness there of? And no, this is not a rhetorical question. I’m seriously curious.
Here in Texas most of the loudest CWD naysayers are deer breeders or know people who are breeders. They're upset because they have to follow rules from TPWD for movements and testing of animals they move around the state.I’m not gonna get into my opinions on the matter.
But I have to ask the question: what does one gain from denying CWD or the seriousness there of? And no, this is not a rhetorical question. I’m seriously curious.
The "scam" is not that CWD doesn't exist. Yes, it exists. No one has denied that.
The "scam" is how it's being portrayed and used both as a money maker for government agencies and politically as an anti-hunting tool. This is not theory, this is fact.
We were always taught if it's not a pest, like a gopher or rats, if you don't want to eat it don't kill it.
We weren't taught wrong.
The "scam" is not that CWD doesn't exist. Yes, it exists. No one has denied that.
The "scam" is how it's being portrayed and used both as a money maker for government agencies and politically as an anti-hunting tool. This is not theory, this is fact.
We were always taught if it's not a pest, like a gopher or rats, if you don't want to eat it don't kill it.
We weren't taught wrong.
Here in Texas most of the loudest CWD naysayers are deer breeders or know people who are breeders. They're upset because they have to follow rules from TPWD for movements and testing of animals they move around the state.
Exactly. They’re always calling for people in WI to kill more deer through hunting and some hunters have not followed through. They have the opportunity to do it but many refuse to shoot does in many cases. If people are calling for government culling, it’s because those animals are inaccessible to public hunters, urban deer, private land, etc., or the hunters themselves have been given the opportunity to kill more deer and they refuse to do it. MT had a proposal for a CWD management mule deer hunt in region 6 last fall. Despite showing that that specific areas mule deer population is over objective by like 20 or 30%, the public shot it down saying there are too few mule deer. If there were too few, there wouldn’t be as high of a CWD prevalence.If it's an anti hunting tool, why is the primary method of addressing it always to offer more opportunity to hunters?
The government will take over as authorized breeders. They just have to kill off enough of the natural herd first. All they need is general public support then the real fun will start.Here in Texas most of the loudest CWD naysayers are deer breeders or know people who are breeders. They're upset because they have to follow rules from TPWD for movements and testing of animals they move around the state.
lol yeah that's the government conspiracy I wanted to get into today, they created this whole thing so they could take over the deer breeding industry.The government will take over as authorized breeders. They just have to kill off enough of the natural herd first. All they need is general public support then the real fun will start.
And we'll pay them to put animals out into the "wild" so we can hunt. And they'll guarantee you the safety most people in this thread appear to want to enjoy.