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The disease in deer and elk is called chronic wasting disease or
cwd.
This
sounds better than the infamous "mad cow disease", however they are
closely
related. I hunted Colorado this fall and they go into great detail
on
how to
safely handle the meat. To date, there are no known cases of humans
contacting the disease.
As for diseased fish, thats all nonsense as far as I can tell.
However,
if
someone read it on the internet, it must be true!
Gordon

Mad cow disease is caused by prions. I'm not totally clear on what
that
is, but diseased meat cannot be made safe by cooking, unless the
meat's
incinerated beyond the point of being edible. If CWD is also caused
by
prions, there is no way to safely handle the meat other than to not
eat
it.

As far as fish diseases, which ones are nonsense? Whirling disease?
Others? Enlighten me.


The Mad Cow prions seem to affect man. There is another prion disease
found in sheep, that does not cross over.


What about the fish diseases which you claim to be nonsense? You
haven't
answered that question. I'm going to need to see some cites which
describe
the research on these non-issue diseases.


The fish diseases affect the wild fish. Whirling disease from hatchery
trout has screwed up more than one lake.



Wild fish can infect farm fish and vice versa. The feed has antibiotics
in it to protect the farmed fish. If that bothers you, then so should
commercially grown chicken, beef, and all farm crops. Remember DDT and
alar?
Gordon



DDT, was actually benign to humans, just screwed up the reproduction of
birds. Thin eggs. I do not like all the antibiotics and hormones in
animals. Seen the young ladies these days? When you see a 10 year old,
that is as developed as the 15 year olds of the late 1950's when I was 15,
you can see that things are not good. Alar, is a bogus answer. Sure the
wild can give disease to the farm raised, but more likely the other way.
And since farm animal byproducts are part of farm raised fish food, you get
a double dose of the hormones and other drugs. Besides I like to catch
salmon, but do not care to eat them. Plus it is an extremely dirty,
polluting business.