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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    It’s the having kids and not having a good fallback support system that makes it have a new meaning. Easy to say “extend the security” harder to accomplish.
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    Yeah the ones eating my tomato plants got me thinking about that too. Really wish we could figure out the role of the misfolded protein and if it’s actually novel or just something that has always been around and serves an evolutionary purpose. If it’s the latter, still would want to be cautious...
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    Well you can’t say something like this without backing it up. The controlled studies show that heated cwd prions remain infectious even when heated to extreme temperatures.
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    The study your referencing I’m almost certain has not been published. Trying to find it in the literature turns up only reference to it and anecdotal reports.
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    This is the sort of thing I’m talking about.
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    Yeah it’s not so much the obvious effects I am (mildly) concerned about but the innocuous weird effects of these persistent man made chemicals (like *** Teflon!?). Wanting the best for your kids is debilitating when there’s so little real nature left, but life expectancy even now is so much more...
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    Fun fact: apparently BSE (mad cow) is only monitored in about 25,000 cattle per year by USDA. They’re watching for any increase in prevalence. Very scientific approach but there’s no guarantees about the meat on the shelf, that’s for sure...
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    This one was macaques and they apparently did not contract cwd after 9 years? This is the first time I’ve seen this study, and now I’ll have to find out more. I know I read about one that was long term like this (~10 years) and the macaques came down with it after being fed deer meat, but also...
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    I've read the macaque study [correction: I’ve read about the macaque study, but I don’t think a study has been published or peer reviewed] and to have any meaningful interpretation one has to have understanding of the methods and molecular biology and I just don't have enough to be able to say...
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    Oh yeah it makes the point. As with other things these days, I hope all individual precautions are ultimately unwarranted and hindsight shows that they were unnecessary.
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    A lot of wild critters out there eating a whole lot of GMO crops (soybeans and corn). I often wonder about that but far as I can tell it gets broken down just like any other food. Kind of a pick your poison, or at least try to know your poison I guess. Caution will go to the wind once I let...
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    That's good advice, and practical. I think to say "no CWD" is where it gets tricky for me. Not a lot of research yet, and nothing that really says it's confined to nervous tissues. Also, not a lot saying that negative means "no CWD", maybe just not enough to trigger a positive result. It's...
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    Who has concerns about feeding wild game to their families?

    Hello everyone, first real post here and just sharing some thoughts hoping maybe someone will drop some insight on me. I'll start by saying I'm 32, been hunting and fishing since I was big enough to go with my dad. Shot my first deer at 11, first one with a bow at 14. Been butchering my own...
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