CWD safe to eat or not?

[Frostbite]

My doc has limited me to salmon, pork chops and chicken and not a lot of those pork chops...........and I also eat canned tuna and sardines.

Venison when I can get it and NO BEEF.

Darn.

I loved those Ribeyes.

 

[steve white]

What about all the Elk jerky sold by Buckee's, or all the specialty jerky shops? Can we trust their commercial venison sources? Christmas is coming and Cabela's and Bass Pro will likely have a bunch of jerky package offers as well. Where does it all end? Constant vigilance or devil may care?

 

[Doug Hamilton]

No disrespect but please remove this ASAP...this is exactly what anti hunters that troll our site look for to show what we "seem to endourse."

I don't know. Native Africans will happily eat monkeys. Most European and North American people won't. Natives eating monkeys will go on whether we endorse it or not. If the antis want to spend their time, money and resources on convincing Africans to stop eating monkeys I'm not seeing the down side.

 

[dlmac]

From Wikipedia,


“CWD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer. TSEs are a family of diseases caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as BSE (mad cow disease) in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease(CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep. . . . In April 2024, it was revealed that two men from the same hunting group contracted Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, prompting medical researchers to speculate transmission had occurred from consuming CWD-positive venison.”

I would not touch it much less eat it.

I was going to reference the same article. The chance of 2 hunting partners catching CJD is almost impossible. CJD is primarily found in South America. I would not eat it or even feed it to my dogs. It is not easily denatured as other protiens.

 

[farmer_john]

No disrespect but please remove this ASAP...this is exactly what anti hunters that troll our site look for to show what we "seem to endourse."

I think your being a bit sensitive.

 

[Flbt]

We’ll just have to disagree I guess. I don’t mind deer and have eaten several of them. I’m just a beef man I suppose.

Yea just different taste.

In all honesty if squirrel and rabbit were as big. As deer they would be what I hunted most. lol

 

[Wyatt Smith]

Yea just different taste.

In all honesty if squirrel and rabbit were as big. As deer they would be what I hunted most. lol

Agree 100% there!

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

No disrespect but please remove this ASAP...this is exactly what anti hunters that troll our site look for to show what we "seem to endourse."

I was pointing out the duality between African tribal hunters and American hunters… The picture was meant to elicit emotion!

Of course I appreciate the tribal hunters ability to survive on what is available. Doesn’t bother me that they eat monkeys. It’s ingrained in them for survival and that is part of their fixed culture. It just looks bizarre to most westerners or hunters that may have never been exposed to it.

It has little to do with “endorsement” because “we”, or most, modern hunters have different motivations for hunting. Wildlife management, recreational, and/or sport hunting is different than sustenance hunting. So, I could give two shits if “anti-hunters” are unable to discern the difference…