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Twelve Pointer
Dr. Robert Brown, "Blast" Representative Roger West for his deliberate one sided approach in handling Tuesdays WRC / House Select Committee Hearing and taking a clear path by offering the "Microphone" to a few that aligned with recent Campaign Contributions while "Muting" Sound Science!
(Dr. Brown's Quote; from News and Observer Article / Comments)
"In the NC Legislature's recent lambasting of the NC WRC over deer farming, it only allowed the deer farmers to speak - not these who oppose this travesty.
Rep. West said he didn't want to be "intimidated" by the WRC staff or others who oppose this ecological and ethical travesty. He claimed the WRC doesn't know anything about deer farming Well I do. I've worked with and raised deer for research in PA, TX and MS, and worked with deer farmers in OR, TX, and MS. Here's what I know:
1) There is no such thing as a deer (or falling tree) proof fence,
2) CWD is the Ebola of the deer species - there is no reliable live test, it is fatal, and once here, it is here forever - in the soil,
3) A deer farm in Ohio recently had 294 cases of CWD, 4) CWD in 3 PA herds came from infected farms,
5) They say CWD can't be transferred to other animals, but it is believed to have come from sheep with scrapie housed next to penned deer at Colorado State University,
6) Deer can also bring in Tb and brucellosis, fleas, ticks and parasites,
7) Of the 37 deer farms in NC, only 13 have more than 10 animals and only 2 have more than 50 - this is an industry worth risking our native deer herd for?,
8) Thus far, no CWD has been transferred to humans, but 200 people in England died of Mad Cow Disease - a similar prion,
9) Wisconsin has spent $ 25 million on trying to control CWD in that state,
10) The Ohio deer farmer was paid nearly $ 100,000 by the taxpayers for the deer that had to be slaughtered,
11) The USDA "certifies" deer farms if they have been disease free for 5 years, but the PA farm that was infected had been clean for 9 years,
12) The Public Trust Doctrine, and I believe the NC Constitution, state that native wildlife belong to all citizens and cannot owned, or sold by anyone,
13) There are over 200,000 deer hunters in NC who spend $ 187 million on their sport, generate 3,400 jobs and $ 20 million in taxes every year,
14) When the WRC asked for public comments - they got nearly 2,000, with only 8 citizens in favor of deer farming,
15) Neither the Pope and Young Club nor the Boone & Crockett Club allow deer killed in canned hunts behind fences to be entered in their record books - they believe in Fair Chase,
And, Mr. West, the mission of the WRC is to protect the wildlife resources of this state, not to protect a few wealthy deer farmers. Do you really want to bring down a huge sport industry and put the entire native deer population of NC at risk.
Who do your represent? Are you intimidated now"?
Dr. Brown is the former Dean of the College of Natural Resources (2006-2012) at NC State University
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/11/18/4334170_deer-farmers-accuse-state-agency.html?rh=1
tags, representative roger west, rep. roger west, captive cervids, cwd, indy star, ryan sabalow, buck fever, north carolina wildlife resources commission, north carolina public trust doctrine, usda, shooting pens, deer pen operators, roger west, tom smith
(Dr. Brown's Quote; from News and Observer Article / Comments)
"In the NC Legislature's recent lambasting of the NC WRC over deer farming, it only allowed the deer farmers to speak - not these who oppose this travesty.
Rep. West said he didn't want to be "intimidated" by the WRC staff or others who oppose this ecological and ethical travesty. He claimed the WRC doesn't know anything about deer farming Well I do. I've worked with and raised deer for research in PA, TX and MS, and worked with deer farmers in OR, TX, and MS. Here's what I know:
1) There is no such thing as a deer (or falling tree) proof fence,
2) CWD is the Ebola of the deer species - there is no reliable live test, it is fatal, and once here, it is here forever - in the soil,
3) A deer farm in Ohio recently had 294 cases of CWD, 4) CWD in 3 PA herds came from infected farms,
5) They say CWD can't be transferred to other animals, but it is believed to have come from sheep with scrapie housed next to penned deer at Colorado State University,
6) Deer can also bring in Tb and brucellosis, fleas, ticks and parasites,
7) Of the 37 deer farms in NC, only 13 have more than 10 animals and only 2 have more than 50 - this is an industry worth risking our native deer herd for?,
8) Thus far, no CWD has been transferred to humans, but 200 people in England died of Mad Cow Disease - a similar prion,
9) Wisconsin has spent $ 25 million on trying to control CWD in that state,
10) The Ohio deer farmer was paid nearly $ 100,000 by the taxpayers for the deer that had to be slaughtered,
11) The USDA "certifies" deer farms if they have been disease free for 5 years, but the PA farm that was infected had been clean for 9 years,
12) The Public Trust Doctrine, and I believe the NC Constitution, state that native wildlife belong to all citizens and cannot owned, or sold by anyone,
13) There are over 200,000 deer hunters in NC who spend $ 187 million on their sport, generate 3,400 jobs and $ 20 million in taxes every year,
14) When the WRC asked for public comments - they got nearly 2,000, with only 8 citizens in favor of deer farming,
15) Neither the Pope and Young Club nor the Boone & Crockett Club allow deer killed in canned hunts behind fences to be entered in their record books - they believe in Fair Chase,
And, Mr. West, the mission of the WRC is to protect the wildlife resources of this state, not to protect a few wealthy deer farmers. Do you really want to bring down a huge sport industry and put the entire native deer population of NC at risk.
Who do your represent? Are you intimidated now"?
Dr. Brown is the former Dean of the College of Natural Resources (2006-2012) at NC State University
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/11/18/4334170_deer-farmers-accuse-state-agency.html?rh=1
tags, representative roger west, rep. roger west, captive cervids, cwd, indy star, ryan sabalow, buck fever, north carolina wildlife resources commission, north carolina public trust doctrine, usda, shooting pens, deer pen operators, roger west, tom smith
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