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Originally Posted by Sledhead71
Actually if you look at all the data that is already out there, it is a very big leap and a gross assumption made be many..
As we all can attest, wintering habits find these deer crowding around hay stacks, leaking grain bins, ext. In all reality these are artificial man made buffets in a natural setting.. Even trying to eliminate these, deer feed in general areas depending on time of year and contact with the prion that causes CWD is inevitable..
If artificial "baiting" was a large contributor to the spread of disease, well the numbers from one side of the wheat boarder to the other would obviously be greater proving this theory.. It's not, almost identical patterns in Alberta vs. Sask along the boarder providing us all with data the proves our personal assumptions are not valid.
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There are lots of questions surrounding CWD and it could be debated forever but the fact remains that crowding is proven to spread the disease...that's all I need to know.
As for CWD existing across the wheat belt...give it time. It's not another big assumption to guess where it started and why it's so prevelant along the Sask/AB border. It is slowly spreading like a cancer. Why create conditions that could increase the rate of the spread? What's the benefit to allowing baiting?