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Study: Hunters Die After Consuming CWD-Infected Venison (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/news@hexbear.net
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The link is not 100% but two hunters eating from the same deer population and falling ill at around the same time is extremely unlikely to be a coincidence.

We are essentially one mutation away from this spreading between humans and that would be very, very bad.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Putting it out of its misery and not wasting what could be good venison meat?

Sounds more merciful than shooting a young healthy animal.

But I don't know, I don't hunt.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If the poor thing's visibly suffering from CWD, it absolutely is not good meat. When I was living in the sticks, I didn't know a single subsistence hunter who'd eat a visibly-diseased buck-- the sport hunters might've still gone after them, but I don't tolerate sport hunters in my physical locality, so I don't talk to them.

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