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Originally Posted by walking buffalo
Our BSE safety protocols won't guarantee that you will not get sick if you eat an infected animal.
With BSE and CWD, the prions are present throughout the animal, including the muscle tissue.
We really don't know that no one has contracted CWD. There has been little testing for the disease in people.
Even if it is not possible to contract the current variants of CWD in existence today,
there is a valid concern that CWD could mutate and become infectious to humans.
IF CWD is/becomes infectious to humans, the concern of cross contamination during processing is likely very low.... but who knows....
Butchering your own game is something I have always promoted anyways.
I strongly feel it is an integral component of "from Field to Plate".
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Where did you get the info the prions are present in muscle tissue? I have read a lot of papers at this point. Every credible source says brain, spinal and lymph node tissue only.
I wish this was taken more seriously. Every study I've read to date says no likely hood of human contraction. But no one has been extensive enough to be absolute.
And how many untested deer have been ingested with cwd at this point? We have positives in 132 and I have whitetails in the freeze from within a mile of the positive. Do they have it?
I don't believe CWD consumption is an issue for humans at this point or we'd have Corona virus level panic at this point.