So I mentioned yesterday that Mr. Rasch simply dismissed concerns about CWD with respect to the shooting tame animals industry. He assured us that vets check all the animals, so why worry? How about this?
Here’s a quote from the Michigan DNR release:
The Turners are charged with 54 counts, including two felony counts of animal cruelty to animals/livestock and conspiracy to commit animal cruelty; and multiple misdemeanor counts of illegal importation of elk into Michigan, failure to maintain animal health records, enclosure violations, animal at large and health code violations.
and…
The investigation confirmed animals were allegedly smuggled into the state while Michigan’s borders were closed to any out-of-state importation of elk and deer. The importation ban was placed on Michigan by the MDA in April 2002 as a result of western states contracting Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Records showed that the Turners had allegedly illegally imported elk from Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota and Canada.
Fellow Skinny Moose writer MikeAdams at Hooks and Bullets points out that CWD was discovered in Western Michigan last August and has changed the way hunters go afield there. Now, one guess, do you think that case last August was found in wild deer or tame deer?
That’s right… tame… But no reason to worry right?
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