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Wisconsin Deer Farming Article - CWD

Insane. These people have no clue what they are talking about in their comments, with a few exceptions. They think shutting down deer farms will stop CWD. They also seem to think that CWD is this disease that kills animals like the Ebola virus kills. You get CWD and your dead in X amount of days. Out of all the reading I've done on CWD I can't find anything that actually shows an animal that has died of the disease. I can find lots of information on animals that have died to be tested for the disease then found to have the disease. Hopefully the state isn't as stupid as the people that are commenting on there and realize that deer farms are not the cause of CWD.
 
acutting said:
Hopefully the state isn't as stupid as the people that are commenting on there and realize that deer farms are not the cause of CWD.
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The state DNR is who taught these dense sob's that the whitetails will drop over like flies from this. Back in 2001 the state DNR said the entire state of WI deer population would be killed in less than 15 years if CWD wasn't eradicated in the zone down south.

Hmmm, funny thing is the population is higher now than it was then. Even IN the eradication zone.
 
Well this will seem easy to say now at this point, but when this "news story" first broke I was wondering why the Ag dept would release information about a "positive" when they had not done a second test yet. It seemed premature at best, and actually more aimed at purposefully damaging the industry.



I wonder now that a negative test has been done on this deer what will all the critics say? I bet this news gets very little time compared to the previous story.
 
Why does this not suprise me. I found it odd as well that they would release this information before confirming 100%.
 
In the past, a second test wasn't done - they said they didn't need to do a second test. This is something the deer industry has fought for for a long time - and it is now obvious why. The Dept. of Agr. did not release the name of the farm pending the second test, but other news outlets did. The first test was done here in WI and the second in Iowa. In the past if the first test was done in Iowa they refused to do a second test. I would think there would be some people who have been put out of business by one positive test that would be pretty upset right now.
 
I wonder how many people who have been put out of business by one positive test would still be in business if it would have been common practice to do two tests. There seems to be a lot more false positives popping up then people realize but the media doesn't seem to report that. They get the first test result information and run with it next thing you know people are panicing over nothing but the media doesn't calm the storm they create.
 
Yeah, that article gets down to the facts of the issue. Do you know if any of the larger papers that reported on this have run a similar article? I know this story reached my the Duluth News Tribune. My grand mother lives in Duluth, MN and I asked her if it was in the paper because I did find it online for that paper as well. She looked through the paper and sure enough the original article for the Positive was in the paper but I haven't seen anything so far showing that this was a false positive.
 

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