They've got a whole action plan. It's long. Happy reading....

Destroying half the deer population to stop a disease that would only kill a fraction as many if left alone should be a good way for them to milk federal money for a good long while.

Kill off the deer herd with sharpshooters and extend the season. The DNR will ruin deer hunting. This disease has been around for 50 years!!!!!

What are you even talking about?

Why not just follow other states that have dealt with it for years?Iowa has CWD and still has awesome hunting. I don’t think Alabama DNR is going to come up with a better plan based on there past decisions.

No ONE will step foot on my farm but me. I can promise you.

That will work 257 I'll sit in the passenger seat and you can get the gates and hold the light.... (dusting off the ole 7400 as I type).

I gave it a speed read... I especially liked the part under "Why we are concerned" that stated , and I'm paraphrasing here,.... they don't really know what the impact on the deer population would be.

Pure Genius. I guess nobody thought to study or at least look into what the impact has been in other States. These are your tax dollars at work. If you don't know hail choot'em right?

I will not eat any deer from a confirmed positive area. Its not about the deer its about human impact. The positive results are about uniformly distrubuted as you possibly draw... WOW!

Overreacting is first thing they will do.

Where did you get half 95 percent Killem before they die They say every deer that gets cwd will die Guess what every deer will die under these rules How do you know what 95 percent is in nthe wild

Welp, there's been at least 1 more confirmed case in TN....some friends of ours with land in Fayette Co got a call from their processor a couple of days ago that one of their deer had come back with a positive test result. They'd already picked up the meat and had given some away, so they're scrambling to get it back or make sure it's thrown out.

Why are they throwing it out? Not one shred of evidence has been presented that shows CWD can be transmitted to humans by eating meat.

Because they feel it's not worth the risk, no matter how small. And personally I agree. I wouldn't eat it myself and I certainly wouldn't feed it to my kids.

Shouldn't we'll cooked be fine? No one has died from CWD yet

Well, from what I've read temperature does not kill/remove it. Plus venison cooked more than medium isn't worth eating (and medium is pushing it)

heat won't kill the prions

I'd throw it away also.

This exactly part of the problem. CWD is a serious issue but the states current plan is equally bad and Chuckie has made it clear recently that he plans to do exactly what’s in the plan if found here and he will encounter significant resistance. Overall, the deer population will suffer from both the CWD and the states overreaction.

You can't kill the prions that cause the disease with cooking temperatures or fire.

But again, not a shred of evidence has been presented that shows consuming meat from a deer with CWD does anything.

Gotcha I wasn't sure on cooking.