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On 2021-05-04 9:44 a.m., Boron Elgar wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2021 09:39:41 -0600, Graham > wrote:
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>> On 2021-05-04 8:13 a.m., Boron Elgar wrote:
>>> On Tue, 04 May 2021 07:53:27 -0600, US Janet >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 04 May 2021 09:41:32 -0400, Boron Elgar
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 03 May 2021 22:54:11 -0700, Leo >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2021 May 3, , Daniel wrote
>>>>>> (in article >):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was told that it's easy to overcook and that it comes out pasty if
>>>>>>> overdone. So, with that in mind, anyone with experience with wild game
>>>>>>> meat have tips for me to prevent this mishap?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have eaten a lot of wild game. I doubt that any deer would come out pasty.
>>>>>> Maybe, I don´t know what "pasty" means to you.
>>>>>> Remember that wild game is wild, without any governmental stamp of approval,
>>>>>> and may contain parasites. I tend to cook wild game to well done.
>>>>>> I have hunter friends who disagree. They´re still alive so...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> leo
>>>>>>
>>>>> I will only eat farm raised.
>>>>>
>>>>> Parasites are the least of it. My paranoid other concern is prion
>>>>> disease such as CWD. Though they cannot pin deer/elk to human
>>>>> transmission, I know too much about what happened with the cattle
>>>>> problems to be comfy with eating wild ungulate.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2019/...er-for-humans/
>>>>
>>>> I've refused wild moose and elk meat in the last 10 years because of
>>>> those concerns. We don't hunt any longer either.
>>>> Janet US
>>>
>>> It's a damned shame and it is spreading to more and more states.
>>>
>>> There is a specialty meat place near us- mostly they exist for upscale
>>> restaurant provisions, but they have a great network for farmed deer
>>> and elk. In fact, I have a venison rack in the freezer that I should
>>> get out and make one evening.
>>>

>> CWD is present in farmed venison. I won't touch it.

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>
> Source farm I have gotten things from in Texas say they observe
> behavior before harvest and test afterwards..
>
> Prions are so tricky. Now you have made me suspect even of that.
>

That's good! It has been reported on Alberta farms and once it's there,
that farm must close its operation, AIUI. It has been spreading in the
wild population like wildfire.
After being shut in with this pandemic, I could do with a bit of
wasting, or is it waisting disease!