john250
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Chuckie":2bchkjwk said:Obama applied for the wrong job!
Mickey D's wasn't hiring that week. The rest is history.
Chuckie":2bchkjwk said:Obama applied for the wrong job!
john250":2dr8r31c said:Former cheif of staff for Al Gore. Whaddaya bet he calls for carbon controls to fight the epidemic?
Jogeephus":17w6em4b said:Its insane isn't it? Just a money grab with no substance or use.
boondocks":37k0h1am said:Jogeephus":37k0h1am said:Its insane isn't it? Just a money grab with no substance or use.
Jo, I'm not sure why on earth they'd not actually inspect the thing, but in terms of why they'd care about a taxidermied deer, here's one possible reason. About an hour away from me, a local taxidermist (who also ran a small game/deer farm) donated venison for a fire dept dinner. Story here: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2005/04 ... 112650696/
What the story doesn't talk about is that they (I think Cornell, probably) eventually traced the chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the local deer population to an elk hide that he was preparing (it was shipped to him from out West). As I said, he ran sort of a game farm, and a fawn from the farm nosed the hide, thereby contracted CWD, then spread it to a few other deer. The fawn grew and was later slaughtered for the fire dept meal, where it was served to something like 70 possible people. CWD eats away the animal's brain and is fatal. There is some evidence that it can be passed to humans. So everyone that ate at the dinner that night (I know one of them) is undergoing ongoing monitoring, for the rest of their lives, to make sure they don't develop the human version of the disease. If they do, it's fatal. It takes decades to develop so they are living with that every day.
I don't know if this incident led directly or indirectly to the woes you had. It's possible that once they realized that hides were capable of transmitting CWD to live animals (and potentially humans), they made it very hard to ship them...Doesn't excuse not actually inspecting it and taking your money (!), but I thought you might find this story interesting.
Although they haven't found any more CWD cases in local deer the past few years, it still kinda turns you off venison. it didn't take much, in my case, since I never thought it tasted that great anyway. Everyone else around here eats it though, and I'm sure it's only a theoretical risk, like having the Acme piano fall on your head.
highgrit":1ye5hs7d said:Oneida County Health Department spokesman Ken Fanelli said people who consumed the deer did not need to worry about contracting the disease, according to the Utica Observer Dispatch.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2005/04 ... z3Gx9WzRtB
Boondocks, you comprehend what you read different than I do. I like venison myself but I can see why some folks don't care for it. Has CWD ever killed a human yet? Has CWD ever passed from a deer to a human? The best I could comprehend from a few Internet searches is no.
But Ebola has killed plenty and is easily transferred between humans. And our jackass is doing nothing to stop the spread of this deadly disease in this country.