Sorry l was locked on to food ,yeh us ranchers actually call it TSEs here (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies), as thats the actual family of disease & being ranchers CWD is a non specific bit of nothing term, ie cattle have 1/2 dozen different afflictions you could term as CWD .
We have actually had scientists study animals for over 6 years on our hunting land for TSEs , it really is a bit hyped up IMO ,the same way you would not eat a obviously sickly farm animal no one with 1/2 a brain would eat the same in a game animal .
As we have always home butchered all our meat & being guides we have done training in inspecting for diseases in a wide range of animals including fish .The only things l do not touch in offal is brains & marrow & that goes back to the mad cow disease as l seen that in Europe first hand & IMO it will only be a matter of time before we have another out break .
I am always really careful with feral pigs as l have seen humans infected with Cysticercosis in Africa & Australia funny enough, but feral pig hunting is huge there as there are literally millions of them .
I have always said a lot of the times when people say oh l tasted so & so game animal & it was tough or tasted terrible 99.9% of the time that will be because the meat was not treated or stored properly & a farmed animal treated the same would taste like that as well.
Every hunter should be making sure they inspect the carcass properly during cleaning if they are eating it & taking note of any health /disease concerns .like l say no way you pick a Sheep/cow/pig or chicken out at a Farm to eat if it was in poor condition or health, game animals should be treated no differently.
Here is some info on TSE from our Montana CDE they send out to us guides you might find interesting,the authors have been on our hunting land .
Whats CWD?
Sorry l was locked on to food ,yeh us ranchers actually call it TSEs here (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies), as thats the actual family of disease & being ranchers CWD is a non specific bit of nothing term, ie cattle have 1/2 dozen different afflictions you could term as CWD .
We have actually had scientists study animals for over 6 years on our hunting land for TSEs , it really is a bit hyped up IMO ,the same way you would not eat a obviously sickly farm animal no one with 1/2 a brain would eat the same in a game animal .
As we have always home butchered all our meat & being guides we have done training in inspecting for diseases in a wide range of animals including fish .The only things l do not touch in offal is brains & marrow & that goes back to the mad cow disease as l seen that in Europe first hand & IMO it will only be a matter of time before we have another out break .
I am always really careful with feral pigs as l have seen humans infected with Cysticercosis in Africa & Australia funny enough, but feral pig hunting is huge there as there are literally millions of them .
I have always said a lot of the times when people say oh l tasted so & so game animal & it was tough or tasted terrible 99.9% of the time that will be because the meat was not treated or stored properly & a farmed animal treated the same would taste like that as well.
Every hunter should be making sure they inspect the carcass properly during cleaning if they are eating it & taking note of any health /disease concerns .like l say no way you pick a Sheep/cow/pig or chicken out at a Farm to eat if it was in poor condition or health, game animals should be treated no differently.
Here is some info on TSE from our Montana CDE they send out to us guides you might find interesting,the authors have been on our hunting land .
https://dphhs.mt.gov/publichealth/cdepi/diseases/cwd
I guess I’ll have to stop eating humans now. Damn it!