When/if the SHTF, I want to be able to eat deer harvested in my neck of the woods without having my brains slowly rot out from prion disease.
This fawn had the misfortune of being from an area that is infested with Chronic Wasting Disease, compounded my the double misfortune of being under the dubious care of an “animal lover” who wanted to ship it to an uncontaminated area.
We can back it up further and blame the bleeding heart liberals who couldn’t wrap their Disney-numbed minds around the concept that the is no deer daycare. A mommy deer leaves a fawn in a safe (as much as anything in the wild is safe) area while she feeds. A fawn alone is not a fawn forsaken.
You could bag two deer next hunting season, and one could be “infected”.
How would you possibly find out which butchered cuts of the infected deer meat was “bad”, before you cooked and ate it?
The correct answer is: you can’t.
But the risk is miniscule for non-domestitcated animals.
If, OTOH, one buys meat products from farms and ranches that force feed herbivores with meat by-products, the “prion disease” risk escalates, exponentially.
All it takes is one tiny tick...