11 cases of the brain disease CWD found in Quebec game farm
Signs of CWD, as shown by this elk, include weight loss, reluctance to move, excessive salivation and lethargy. (Wyoming Game and Fish Department)
A biologist with Ontario’s largest hunting group says the threat of chronic wasting disease (CWD) coming to Ontario is a concern for everyone who cares about wildlife.
Keith Munro works for the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH), in Peterborough,Ontario.
He said the progressive nervous system disease is known to be fatal to moose, deer, elk and caribou.
“Chronic wasting disease is one of these diseases that specifically effects members of the deer family,” he said. “It’s highly infectious, incurable and 100% fatal.”
Munro said the disease has been found in 26 U.S. states, and in 3 provinces.
He said Ontario is still clear of the disease, but the possibility of CWD coming…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Maybe if hunters have to fear for their own precious lives, they’ll stay home.
That would be the one saving grace.
“Ontario’s largest hunting group says the threat of chronic wasting disease (CWD) coming to Ontario is a concern for everyone who cares about wildlife.”
Not everyone who cares about wildlife is behind game farming, massive winter feeding stations, predator-control, and other cervid-slum producing practices that contribute to the spread of CWD. In fact, not everyone who cares about wildlife wants to kill the wildlife, skin the wildlife, eat the wildlife, mount the wildlife, or carry on with practices blithely referred to as “hunter satisfaction.”
As in the US, it appears Canada is trying to rekindle the dying hunting industry, and it uses pitches such as clean, healthy meat, responsible food-procurement, and all the other pitches that ignore lead in the environment (I don’t know where Canada stands on lead bullets) and meat, or the fact that BSE jumped species, and other prions may also be able to make the change. Bon appetite!
I don’t know where the idea of clean healthy meat comes from – in today’s world, where the land and water are so contaminated and polluted, it would seem anything but. I love the term ‘cervid slum producing practices’.