CWD safe to eat or not?

[steve white]

Oysters are about the only thing that I eat that would still be living.

I like a good steak close to alive but just dead enough.

I'll take the oysters raw any day, and just give my steak a sunburn!

 

[steve white]

There are plenty of hunters in the world that will take greater chances on protein sources. Or, as they see it; Dinner!

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We’re lucky to have a choice…

Delete this if it offends!

Don't knock it....if it were not for mice and frogs which can be easily caught and roasted whole on a stick, there would be a LOT of hungry African kids. This was a windfall, and would fetch a good bit if sold by the roadway, as many are.

 

[Neil Molendyk]

Putting it into perspective.
A veterinarian that we used for years, now retired, and I had a conservation regarding elk hunting and its dangers. He had recently attended a seminar in Colorado and when there a person in the audience asked the guest speaker, another veterinarian, if it was worth the risk, eating wild elk meat (keep in mind that this was before there was the level of CWD testing that is occurring now) and what was the danger involved.

The vetrinarian put his opinions forward to the audience much like this:

Most people that go elk hunting go through all or some of the following steps.

1. You leave your residence to either travel to an airport to fly to your hunting destination. Fatal motor vehicle accidents happen.

2. Flying to your hunting destination has a risk involved. Planes can crash, fatalities or injuries happen.

3. You are picked up from your transportation by some one that you may never met before in a vehicle that you don't know is road worthy. Once again vehicle accidents happen all the time. You probably are travelling on roads that may be in poor condition, possibly on snow covered roads in mountainous terrain, and quite possibly in the dark.

4. You are probably staying in a tented camp, chances are that it is lacking a lot of amenities, heated by a wood stove, semi roughing it.

5. You probably will be riding a horse that you have never ridden before, possibly in the dark, rough terrain and with very little knowledge of the dangers presented, slippery and steep slopes, frozen rivers to cross, possibly inclement weather.

6. Firearms and sharp knives are present and accidents happen.

7. Serious predators may be in the area and may have to be dealt with. If a grizzly bear claims your kill, its theirs, not yours. Not to mention an chance encounter with one while hunting.

So you're worried about possibly CWD meat. He summarized his presentation with the statement: "If you hunt elk, It' not if there will be an accident, it's when."

Just my thoughts
None the less:
Enjoy the adventure. Stay safe

 

[Philip Glass]

I just found out the elk I killed tested positive for chronic wasting disease. Unfortunately my cooler stopped working and I had to take it to town and have it processed immediately and was unable to wait for the test to come back before processing it. As far as I can tell there has never been a case of it transmitting to humans, but the CDC says not to eat it. I got $864 in the processing and I really hate to throw it away. What do you guys think? Eat or throw.

CWD is a disorder that virtually nothing is known about. They don't know where it came from, how it's transmitted, etc. Some speculate it is the natural state of things.
Your call on the meat. I would certainly not eat any bone marrow or spinal tissue.