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Might want to think twice about eating deer/elk brains. With CWD on the rise eating any kind of neural or lymphatic tissue would not be wise. Also brains have a high level of cholesterol - pork brains have the highest of any food I know.
I love eating heart, deer, elk or beef and do like beef kidneys but have never tried elk or deer. I like beef liver but my one trial of elk liver was decidedly bitter and have not tried again.
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So I have been told about elk liver- make sure be blood has been well flushed out. We slice about 1/2" thick and put in a mild brine or water to do that... it takes a lot of water and lead time to get it out. Same goes for the others actually. Maybe that will help any future attempt.
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Will give that a try next season already have this years elk put up. The liver on this elk looked a bit bruised though the shot was forward of the liver. So did not collect it.
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Hey @Prwler, I thought you might also be interested: -since you mentioned CWD I did some initial reading on the topic -currently it is flagged as a risk of transmission with some suspected cases but nothing definitely proven. keep an eye out for "spontaneous Crutzfeld-Jakob" diseases as there may be correlation, even cause. -the CWD prions exist in the whole animal. Even urine and saliva supposedly contain it. Of course, I would expect neural tissue to have higher concentrations -CDC advises to not eat infected animals out of concern for crossover to humans -prions take a very high temperature to denature, like 700-900°F degrees. No mention was made as to the effectiveness of acids, bases, or proteolytic enzymes. -I did not look into if there was any sort of quick and cheap field test. Animals that are behaving / visibly impaired by CWD are obviously gone. -(commonly known) prion diseases take a long time to manifest symptoms. There are no known cures for these types of diseases.
Perhaps you already knew this; I certainly did not know these details.
On a related topic, risk of prion-like disease was one of the first things that came to mind when they started saying how they were going to fight an overhyped flu by di**ing around with people's mitochondrial DNA. And then fools volunteered to get it!
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