CWD found in Olmsted county elk herd!!! Time to eliminate game farms!!

[james_walleye]

...by the way i drove by that elk farm today and that fence is no where near 12'....

[vister]

so all of you people think getting rid of game farms will solve it? how about aids. should we slaughter every community with a case of it. how about mad cow disease. when it shows up, should every farm slaughter their cattle. get real! CWD is just natures way of selective harvest, much like people getting cancer.

Bovine TB, CWD and the like aren't good for anything, but it is how mother nature keeps everything in check, so we have to learn to deal with it

many people rely on scents from deer on game farms for hunting. all of them scents come from game farms, not free ranging deer. just think, ridding the game farms means no more lucky pee for you

[picksbigwagon]

good point.

I will be driving by the elk farm in question tomorrow night on my way to Iowa, I wonder if they will let me go pick out an elk and take a hunk with me for dinner (just kidding, just kidding)

[BLACKJACK]

so all of you people think getting rid of game farms will solve it? how about aids. should we slaughter every community with a case of it. how about mad cow disease. when it shows up, should every farm slaughter their cattle. get real! CWD is just natures way of selective harvest, much like people getting cancer.

Bovine TB, CWD and the like aren't good for anything, but it is how mother nature keeps everything in check, so we have to learn to deal with it

many people rely on scents from deer on game farms for hunting. all of them scents come from game farms, not free ranging deer. just think, ridding the game farms means no more lucky pee for you

The point is that if you have game farms around then when they transport elk/deer down the highway, CWD can also get transported down the road at 55 mph, and spread it at a much faster rate to the wild herd. How fast would it spread if it was just on the hoof? Not very fast. Is the possibility of contaminating the wild deer population, ruining the hunting for 500,000 deer hunters, and the lost revenue, is the price really worth it? Just so a few people can try to make money on a few captive elk??

[my2cnz]

It's bad enough that some 2,000 peanut products have been recalled throughout the US, but now we've got CWD infected Elk Tenderloin on the market. Just yesterday FDA sent out this alert.

http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/exoticmeats02_09.html

"Exotic Meats USA Announces Urgent Statewide Recall of Elk Tenderloin Because It May Contain Meat Derived From An Elk Confirmed To Have Chronic Wasting Disease"

That this infected meat even got into our food chain is unconscionable. Recall says it originated from Minnesota. I wonder where the rest of this Elk meat went?