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Farmer-Rick

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18. You can send the head of the deer to get tested
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 02:41 PM
Apr 18

Before you eat it to ensure it doesn't have CWD.

I know people who love venison and fill their freezers with it regularly. But they never get it tested. I think that is just very dangerous of them, especially when they are feeding it to their children.

Since I have found out about CWD, I have stopped eating venison.

The last out break of Mad Cow disease in the UK spread because young calves were eating prion-infected meat-and-bone meal. Cows don't get BSE from being near other cows that have it. But it can be transmitted through the food supply.

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