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Remember this: As dead flies cause even a bottle of perfume to stink, so a little foolishness spoils great wisdom and honor. ~Ecclesiastes 10:1~
As always, this is for educational purposes. We are going to examine the content of this issue as it is one more rabbit hole to fall into. Woooooooo Hoooooo! Here we go!
I was playing Russian Roulette with trying to figure out which video this was about because there was at least three that I saw.
For the record, farming deer to me is so weird. Looking at a high fenced area with cattle ear tagged deer in it is just strange to me.
While doing my trolling of imminent domain on the social medias, I heard a voice cry out from a post that he was unhappy with what he saw on a podcast on CWD. I saw Uncle Ted having a meltdown in a post over the same issue, but he sprinkled another diabolical menace on top of it.
I cannot wrap my head around the same behavior these people have of posting declarations that reminisce like Corporate speak, that I have become highly allergic to hearing. I am breaking out as I type. When I hear the jargon, "misinformation", I get itchy fingers.
Let us think about good etiquette. If you are going to complain about someone's podcast, at least when you ship it to the complaint department, do not elude that it is 60 percent crap without providing your own corrective outline for why said podcast content is guano. Then point elsewhere for clarification to the complaint. So here it is:
Video One, Summary the Deer Farmer:
Commentator says the podcast he watched about CWD is 60 percent incorrect as given by the guest. Points out that the podcast host needed to get more information from other sources in the deer farming industry. Commentator states the Deer Farmers are the only ones out here trying to beat CWD. EHD kills more deer per year than CWD has killed in history. Cars kill more deer in fall than CWD in history. Commentator requests that he talk to people on the other side. Commentator gives two names (well respected in the deer farming industry) that can explain the battle. Deer farmers are fighting CWD not because it is on the farms, but deer farmers are trying to find a cure. Commentator claims guest isn't doing jack shit about finding a cure. List questions on what the guest is doing in terms of breeding for SS Neg GEBV. Makes claim the guest is not doing anything except talking.
I was a wee lad........
This guy was really passionate about this podcast because he is a deer farmer it would appear. This video was recent. The name drops for this dude is Chris Ezell and Shawn Schafer, but it looked like he was throwing shade at Jason Sumners. You may ask who are these people?
Video Two, Summary of Uncle Ted on EHD and CWD (which he has several):
Uncle Ted was interviewed by someone who asks him is the state more concerned with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) or Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD). This post was logged 10-09.
Uncle Ted replies this is the Uncle Sham horror story of his lifetime. Someone is wasting a lot of money studying CWD, which evidence shows it hasn't hurt a deer herd based on annual recruitment in productivity. People can't get CWD, has not hurt a deer herd. The powers that be are not paying attention to EHD, which has confirmed over the years to kill millions of deer. Stated a wipeout in multiple states. Uncle Sham and the game departments aren't concerned about it. He doesn't know what motivates Uncle Sham and the game departments; they are just not good people.
There are several videos that he is stating there is little proof to CWD.
I am not refuting. I am just gawking and a looking.
Let's look at the players in this drama. A well-known hunting personality that scribbles a sentence or two, two people affiliated with the North American Deer Farmers Association, a deer farmer, and the intrepid Director of the Missouri Department of Conservation, who is a biologist. He is on the board of the National Deer Association.
Let us interject another item of etiquette. If you are trying to debate with someone from an opposing perspective, do not insult their experience and knowledge. For you would not want to be treated that way. Stay focused on what you are debating or inserting as additional perspectives or information.
At the same time, you have to look at the reference in which they are speaking. If the person is speaking on a location that is not in your vicinity, the factors could be completely different, and this will have a certain amount of effect on the situation or the outcome from their relative stance as it satellites or comets you.
This diatribe is writ to illustrate how opposing sides, or groups from different sectors of an industry should communicate to get the most out of their respective stances. If you are providing substance versus someone who eludes that substance is on the horizon, you might have lost me there, and I will go on my own to find out what is the matter.
Now I must watch this podcast and move through space and time to see what pissed this guy off so bad. On to the video that appears to be from a month ago unless it is on re-spin.
(Intermission as I watch said video). Let's watch it together; maybe more than once. * Hands popcorn *
As I am watching the video this sticks out to me, we have the complaint and this Deer Biologist is catching disrespect. The Deer Biologist is concerned with deer populations in the wild. If you watch it, the Deer Biologist clearly tells the podcaster that he supports scientific study provided by captive deer facilities and hopes they continue. He states he doesn't want to disparage anyone, yet the deer farmer makes the statement this Deer Biologist isn't doing crap. I wonder if he has ever worked for a state agency?
Maybe the dude walked out on that part to get a beer.
The Deer farmer and his affiliates are concerned with their herds that are in a fence like a control group. They can feed them what they want, do artificial insemination, monitor for cross contamination, give them ivermectin, selectively breed for genetics and pass traits, and other factors. These deer are in a bubble. They treat them like cows or pigs, as they have ear tags with a number and can be sold at auction. They are not wandering wild.
Once again, this is so weird to me. I was a wee lad......
I wondered if the first person was slightly annoyed because the captive cervid industry was a blimp on the screen in these videos.
The title of this one is, The Truth About Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) / The Meateater Podcast Ep. 766. This video was a year ago. It had the same podcaster going back and forth with questions with his guests, these two researchers that were from the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study. This podcast was informative because I remember watching it when he put it out.
Captive deer are not treated with the bulk of the podcast but in filming you do have to worry about pacing. There is always room for the next video. At 1:43:21 The Genetics and Resistant deer debate covered it somewhat. I wondered if this was what he was talking about.
The captive deer and the wild deer at large are biologically the same with variations in their genes. Supposedly, the genetics of these captive cervids can put off the CWD affliction. The issue I see with this is you have two groups of animals, wild and captive, that are not living the same life but eventually can overlap if things get so bad that they want to turn the captive animals loose on wild populations to breed out the prion issue. Yet, when one walks into a party, they can be carrying a deadly weapon of disease that no one sees coming now you have a carousel of rotating new problems. I think I heard someone say they did this in Oklahoma. I would have to double check.
Let us get back to the point. If you are going to watch any kind of material on anything, it would be a good idea to not rage bait with a complaint or elude to some conflict or problem without sitting down and actively listening to what is being plated for you from the piece of media you are complaining about. If you can sit in the woods for hours paying attention to every little squirrel fart and turkey toot, I am sure you can find it in your soul and stomach rumblings to grasp the concept and provide your own.
Listening and paying attention is a skill. Such as this....
Corn and plants can take up CWD prions from bad soil into the roots, stems and leaves in controlled settings; think of all those GMO corn piles out there in the world that all the animals are playing over. Did you know a coyote or a mountain lion can eat it and poop it out? Or the following scientific research about human genes and cervid prions. Get you a snacky-wacky and have a good read. Feel free to click on any of the following for a jump scare. You can check out the following:
After you read the first research article, are you trying to tell me that someone couldn't have cooked this up in a lab, flush it onto the world, and walked off kicking dirt up behind them? I am not saying this couldn't exist naturally but I don't want the burger either.
Let us see what kind of attention span you have after reading the above.
At this point, I don't understand what the man was ragging about so I got to go find it. Maybe they are doing some strange stuff on those deer farms still. Get in the truck and lets go stake them out and look for clues.....
When you get right down to it. We are all concerned and want to find a resolution to the problem.
~Courtesy of the AOFH~
