Annals of Game Management

The only way humans can get chronic wasting disease is by eating deer So the obvious answer is: Don’t kill and eat deer, people! Meanwhile, hundreds of deer–who didn’t even have CJD–were cruelly mowed down by “game” “managers”!!

Michael Elton McLeod's avatarFirst Light Productions

Three years ago, wildlife biologists from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department drove into the paddock of James Anderton’s Whitetail Ranch hunting reserve. Using rifles mounted on tripods they killed more than 70 of Anderton’s animals, shooting for hours, working the panicked herd back and forth across the paddock, picking them off one by one.….

    A white helicopter with what appeared to be a forward-looking infrared camera mounted to its nose flew lazy loops over the ranch, scanning for survivors.

    Texas wildlife officials were concerned that animals in the herd might be carrying a highly transmissible killer of deer known as chronic wasting disease (CWD).

    Anderton said the deer had been bought in Arkansas, a state with no documented cases of the disease so far. But he couldn’t provide evidence of the state of origin for every animal because he was locked in prison for wildlife trafficking. The FBI and…

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7 thoughts on “Annals of Game Management

  1. Chronic wasting disease has increased 10 times in Wisconsin in the last eleven years (.5% to 5%) and we might wonder about the irrational logic of anti wolf hunters. I mean chronic wasting disease is mad cow disease by another name.

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