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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Should You Eat a Deer with Chronic Wasting Disease? It Depends
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:32
	Publish Date:		2018-12-03 06:00:00
	Description:		Should you eat the meat of a deer with Chronic Wasting Disease? In this week's episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist shares some information to help those facing this difficult question decide for themselves. In the course of my day job, I get a lot of questions, some of which are frequently repeated, but they rarely yield a useful answer. Normally I have to respond with “It depends.” In fact, most of the questions I get throughout the year are quite situational. “what should I do about the dead deer floating in the water by my dock?” Well, it depends. “Is it legal to feed wildlife in my yard?” Well, it depends. Now, with the number of Chronic Wasting Disease positives in the wild and inside fenced deer farms seems to have fanned the flames of interest in the disease that has been documented further south in Wisconsin for almost 20 years now. A common question I get is “should I eat my deer?” or “what should I do if my deer comes back positive for CWD? Eat it or pitch it?”
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