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True that. Ya see you still fail to tell me why one animal or one product can move but not the other? All in the name of fighting the same disease??? Care to tell the class what these strict and burdensome rules are for sheep farmers??? I will continue to wait another 10 years for your answer because you will never come up with something that does not exist. Fairly strict for just the one animal but total shut down of the other animal. All in the name of fighting the same disease?? You don’t have to try and change my mind over anything. How about just an answer to these questions with something of some kind of sense?? We will continue to wait. In the meantime while you run from a ghost can you show any damage to animal or man from the last 60 years of chasing their tail? And last but not least. These rules harm the everyday deer Hunter as much or even more then any deer farm in CWD positive states. And now we wait.

You don't hear about scrapie because you're not in the sheep business; you hear about CWD because you're in the deer business. Please don't assume the scrapie is simply tolerated; the regulatory burden is fairly strict. Both flock and individual standards exist. But we've had this conversation over the years, and I'm not going to change your mind about a single thing. We can chat again in another ten years, maybe. Cheers.

Well. After 60 years of CWD in deer and lord knows how many years of Scrapies in sheep which is the same prion and lack of any animal die off’s or human issues of any kind common sense says we are in pretty good shape. They continue to get handed millions of dollars to do research on what? The same exact stuff over and over. I agree if it ever was an issue I would be all for the research and such. But to only use the prion scare when it involves deer and we never hear a word about the Scrapies cases there is a problem and points to an agenda. Just like hunters can’t bring deer back from a CWD positive state dead or alive but can bring sheep all across the country? Problem!! Can’t bring a deer head across lines but can haul all the corn and alfalfa you want from CWD positive states after this research has 100% shown that the CWD prions travel up and into these products from the soil? Problem!! Again just follow the $$$$ and you will get many answers.

Just to interject a thread of common sense among all the bombast. The concern was because we don't currently understand prion diseases nor their mechanism of transmission. EHD is much better understood, hence there's less risk for unanticipated consequences, even if it's "deadlier". With all of the possible avenues of research available, there's a reason we study prion diseases, and it isn't simply because there's funding to be had. As the landscape and our understanding evolves, priorities will shift, but it's not stupid to be cautious. I'm the last one in the world who would be upset at a disease being less of a concern that was originally anticipated. And I'm the first one who would applaud paying attention to what we don't understand rather than gaslighting concern over potential dangers. That having been said, I certainly hope that the impact of CWD turns out to be benign or at least negligible.