01 CWD and Me: Real Hunters Sharing Real CWD Experiences

Landowner experiences and perspectives pertaining to CWD.

[@WEBEKILLINGUM]

It’s been around since the late 60’s. Is it a concern. Maybe but it dos not transmit to humans and that burger taste the same.

[@stevedemarais]

Please see my general comment that addresses your comment. Thank you for watching.

[@Will-ge7ri]

Has not transferred yet.

[@stevedemarais]

Testing costs vary with a particular state’s policy - in MS there is no cost to the hunter, other than the inconvenience of waiting to process your deer. Everyone is allowed to make their own decisions on eating CWD-positive meat, so if you don’t care about potential dangers, then eat to your heart’s content. I love venison burgers, too, and there’s been no proven case of the human version of prion disease coming from eating venison. My concern, and why I follow health department recommendations not to eat CWD positive deer, is based on two facts: 1. When Mad Cow disease was discovered in the 1980s in Britain there were plenty of people saying it was safe to eat the meat, but then years later it was found to infect and kill people. 2. It’s hard to say that no one has died from eating infected venison because when most people die of neurological issues it’s assigned to dementia or similar accepted human disease. I’m not award of anyone having their relative tested after death for the human-variant of CWD, so how do we KNOW it isn’t infecting people. So, even if you aren’t worried about eating it yourself, do you really want to feed it to your children or grandchildren? Eat or not, please keep hunting! We all need to help manage deer, regardless of your opinion on this particular issue.

[@waterdog9555]

Well Said,,, My compliments. 🙂

[@babalina]

The MDC in missouri had CWD season where I live and they removed ALL the deer. There are no deer left on our large property. I tried 2x to comment on their ''CWD testimonial'' video, and 2x they just removed my comment. I was told to my face by a MDC officer that our neighbor can ''kill as many deer as he wants'' and the CWD season lasts 2 months

[@collegeguy14]

What’s wrong with eating the meat has there been a case transmitting to human? How much do you have to pay to test your deer and who is profiting from the testing?

[@stevedemarais]

I responded in a general comment to your post. Thank you for watching.

[@laurensadventures1344]

I’m certainly no expert by any means, but it seems to me that all the different species variants of this disease spring up in response to overpopulation. High density cattle feed lots where the dead are liquefied and fed to the rest of the cows, kuru, where people eat their dead relatives brains, scrapie, where grazing sheep are kept in pens,and cwd which, looking at the map seems more prevalent around high fence deer farms. The disease has always been there but we probably never noticed because we hadn’t always made a game of letting deer live long enough to grow real big. There are solutions but they are certainly not realistic, for instance they found that naturally fertilized soil, not human enhanced soil, deactivates the prion. But that’ll never happen

[@johnsobel4409]

A1 steak sauce takes care of the deer meat with CWD

[@bradmason8334]

The new mad cow disease. This is 2023 and they have no treatment for something thats older than me? Then they nicknamed it Zombie Deer … I call BS