Funny this thread popped back up today. There was an opinion piece in today's Johnstown paper that basically blamed CWD in Pa. deer farms on CWD in Maryland wild deer and the lack of control efforts by the Pa. Game Commission Excerpt:

Regardless of all the efforts by Pennsylvania deer farmers and the Department of Agriculture to monitor and control CWD in private deer herds, the disease continues to spread in our wild herd, compromising the existence of many private herds in its path.

Full article:

http://www.tribdem.com/news/editori...fa5a394-8c21-11e7-9660-87ca9af66f2c.html


Only when you get to the end of the piece does the author identify himself as the vice president of the Pa. Deer Farmers Assoc. Oh and he conveniently left out two facts 1) Deer farms used to be regulated by the Game Commission but the farmers got it switched to the Ag Dept. because the Game Commission was proposing much more restrictive fencing and 2) the first Pa case of CWD was in a captive herd.

Dale

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