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My question about all this wasting disease is....... who has actually confirmed infections? Is it the veterinarians?
Apparantly not since the option to take a suspected deer to them for testing is not available. So now it boils down to who is saying the infection is present. It seems that only the uSDA has the ability to confirm the infection.

But the USDA is also a wing of government which promotes safe healthy commercial foods and not wild game (which has no hormones and is safer). Can we really believe that the USDA even has an interest in wild game even tho it somehow has taken an interest in wasting disease, but not to the point of protecting hunters and consumers of wild game.

It seems that somehow if there is a way to reduce hunters of wild game with scare tactics, they can reduce the credible ownership of appropriate firearms by eliminating the need. Do not doubt the agenda of anti gun radicals in using back door approaches to dismantle the 2nd Amendment and the freedoms, including hunting, that go with that right. Diminishing hunting also appeases PETA and other radical environmental organizations who want to keep people out of the woods.

I do believe there might be infections in certain herds of deer and elk. But the best way to eliminate the transfer of disease is to reduce the herd sizes substantially so to allow better monitoring of the remaining herds. But keep in mind, the media might exagerate the numbers of alleged infections as a scare tactic to discourage hunters. I have heard Wisconsin has had some problems with imposition of unconstitutional firearms laws in the past year. With that mentality present in government, be prepared for anything.

By the way, Missouri has some of the best deer hunting in America. Especially the northern part of the state. And to my knowledge, I have not heard of any infections in the deer population. Season is Nov 16th to NOV 26th this year.

I live in WI. Deer hunting is a state institution. I have every reason to belive that this is real, and it is here. I have suspicions about some activities of the WI DNR, but deer hunting (and the revenues from it) is the the life blood of that organization.

The WI DNR would never be a party to a PETA/ALF scam. Plus, were this to be a "gun control" scam; I have no doubt that the NRA (of which I am a life member), would expose it.

Let's not get too conspiritorial here! It's bad enough as I put the situation!

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