Bluestem Prairie has been following the growing crisis of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), with posts like That awkward moment when the MNHouse enviro chair deals with CWD meeting partisan mischief and Will Winona County wild whitetails be the walking dead? CWD & a deer farmer's defective fences.
Last Wednesday, Tommy Stiles of Henning, Minnesota, made a quick point in his letter to the editors of the Fergus Falls Journal, DNR deer feeding ban:
The DNR makes a big deal about the deer feeding ban.
There is around 400 deer farms in Minnesota, nearly all of them have a single fence around them. So, across the state, deer inside and outside the farms can have nose-to-nose contact. But, grandma can’t feed the deer because of nose-to-nose contact. That’s just silly. If the DNR knew what they were doing, these farms should have been double fenced when CWD was first found in Minnesota.
Deer farms are regulated by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and the Board of Animal Health, but his point is still well taken. It's certainly a marvel that the tiny, private deer farm industry is privileged over the public whitetail herd in Minnesota House committees and floor sessions.
Photo: A whitetail deer suffering from CWD.
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