WI Hunters To Give (CWD Mad?) meat to the poor!

[Antaletriangle]

http://www.rense.com/general84/meat.htm

Hello Jeff - Here is one way to kill two birds with one stone. 1. Send deer meat from heavily CWD infested Wisconsin to feed the poor, and 2. Fund the CWD testing of deer. Does this make any sense?

The deer being donated is from the CWD management zones. Sure, the deer will be 'tested' but we also know how long the deer heads sit on shelves waiting to be tested. So, do the food pantries get the meat before the testing...and then people are notified they ate infected meat? Or, do people get year (or more) old meat (testing often takes that long) after testing is completed?

From the assinine to the sublime.

Patty.


More people are now able to say they have eaten Wisconsin venison.

Deer hunters all over Wisconsin have an easy method of donating extra deer to an area food pantry this year, at no cost to the hunter, and no cost to the person who eventually gets the meat.

Of course hunters can gift an entire unprocessed deer to anyone they wish, provided the deer has been legally registered. It then becomes the responsibility of the recipient to get the deer that processed.

In southern Wisconsin a special pantry program, Target Hunger, was put in place this fall to help collect and distribute ground venison to area food pantries where it could be picked up by consumers.

The remainder of the state has a similar program, but Target Hunger is a little more elaborate because the deer come from the Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zone and must be tested before the ground venison enters the food chain.

In recent years, hunters were asked to make donations which would help offset the testing the deer for CWD and to pay for some of the processing. This year fund drives were organized to get major donors, not hunters, to provide money to handle and process up to 2,000 deer.

As soon as a hunter has registered a deer, some cases even at the registration and sampling station, the hunter leaves the deer, which is then transported to a local processing plant.

With each donation, the hunter received a hat pin and is entered into a lottery for prizes, including a pheasant hunt, fishing trip and tree stand.

The processing plant calls a manager at one of the local food pantry distribution centers saying there is a batch of venison that has been ground and frozen. More importantly, the venison has passed the test and did not come from deer that were infected with chronic wasting disease. The testing is done by the State of Wisconsin, in the same Madison laboratory where hunters' deer are tested for CWD.

In other parts of Wisconsin, testing for CWD is not conducted on the deer because the disease is not present.

The pantry distribution center gets the meat to their local pantries, which then begins to distribute it to customers.

The pantries are required to post a CWD advisory and a lead metal advisory in the pantry stores for their customers to read, but CWD has never been shown to jump the species barrier naturally from deer to humans, and for that matter not to any other animal species.

Chris Brockel, division manager at Food and Gardens in the Madison area says that they do the best to ensure the venison is distributed equitably to all pantries who want to have it available for their participants.

In addition, most counties try to distribute the venison that originated in that county to participants in that county.
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[Humble Janitor]

Sounds like the modern equivalent of white settlers sharing smallpox-infested blankets with native americans.

Take your deer meat and shove it where the sun don't shine!