http://michiganhuntingtoday.com/hooksandbullets/index.php/2009/02/01/cwd-found-on-elk-farm-in-minnesota/ Follow us through the woods and waters of Michigan Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:11:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://michiganhuntingtoday.com/hooksandbullets/index.php/2009/02/01/cwd-found-on-elk-farm-in-minnesota/comment-page-1/#comment-5282 Minnesota High Fence Elk: - The Daily Limit - Skinny Moose Media Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:00:19 +0000 http://michiganhuntingtoday.com/hooksandbullets/?p=885#comment-5282 [...] But now there’s a new benefit to the glorious practice of growing wildlife in a pen: Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Fellow Skinny Moose writer Mike over at Hooks and Bullets reports that CWD has been found in a captive elk herd in Minnesota. [...] [...] But now there’s a new benefit to the glorious practice of growing wildlife in a pen: Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Fellow Skinny Moose writer Mike over at Hooks and Bullets reports that CWD has been found in a captive elk herd in Minnesota. [...]

]]> http://michiganhuntingtoday.com/hooksandbullets/index.php/2009/02/01/cwd-found-on-elk-farm-in-minnesota/comment-page-1/#comment-5274 brokengovt Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:20:35 +0000 http://michiganhuntingtoday.com/hooksandbullets/?p=885#comment-5274 The single CWD deer in Michgan was on a cervid farm. The previous deer/elk found with the disease was on a vervid farm in Minnesota. Now another deer/elk is found on the same cervid farm. Wisconsin has CWD. Does anyone care to guess if it was discovered or originated on a cervid farm? Despite the rhetoric, chatter and noise from all three states DNR, the issue is not in the wild herd unless from a farm first. Many millions are spent for due diligence after the fact. I would assert that it is very cost effective and a good precaution to test deer/elk on cervid farms monthly and if there is a positive test, the farm bears the full cost. CWD does not, I repeat, does not just show up in deer or elk. One can have the 1000 animal properly operated cervid farm and unless another imported animal with the disease is introduced, the herd is actually fine. It has never been proven otherwise. The cervid farm/ranch lobby must have real teeth to have the focus always be on the wild herd and not the sources. Why don't the states fine the perpetrators for the cost of what they create? In Michigan there are 700,000+/- deer hunters. If every hunter chipped in 50 cents, there would be a huge fund to civily sue the cervid farms out of existence if they were found to have a CWD animal. This would scare all the operators into being responsible because they would now be fully accountable. State governments aren't forcing this. Perhaps there is to much "revenue enhancement" in the disease to really act. The single CWD deer in Michgan was on a cervid farm. The previous deer/elk found with the disease was on a vervid farm in Minnesota. Now another deer/elk is found on the same cervid farm. Wisconsin has CWD. Does anyone care to guess if it was discovered or originated on a cervid farm?
Despite the rhetoric, chatter and noise from all three states DNR, the issue is not in the wild herd unless from a farm first. Many millions are spent for due diligence after the fact. I would assert that it is very cost effective and a good precaution to test deer/elk on cervid farms monthly and if there is a positive test, the farm bears the full cost. CWD does not, I repeat, does not just show up in deer or elk. One can have the 1000 animal properly operated cervid farm and unless another imported animal with the disease is introduced, the herd is actually fine. It has never been proven otherwise. The cervid farm/ranch lobby must have real teeth to have the focus always be on the wild herd and not the sources. Why don’t the states fine the perpetrators for the cost of what they create? In Michigan there are 700,000+/- deer hunters. If every hunter chipped in 50 cents, there would be a huge fund to civily sue the cervid farms out of existence if they were found to have a CWD animal. This would scare all the operators into being responsible because they would now be fully accountable. State governments aren’t forcing this. Perhaps there is to much “revenue enhancement” in the disease to really act.

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