Originally posted by HS Strut:
Based on my beliefs that if I own it, I should be able to use it the way I want to... to make money such as leasing it to hunters, farming it, raising animals on it... it should not be illegal. And since nobody wants to step out and say how big the enclosure has to be before it becomes ethical to hunt it, I guess we have some more work to do?
If you lived next door to me, would you want me to put in a hog confinement? Would you want me to put in a shooting range? You telling me you wouldn't fight this in the process? How about a landfill? Don't want me to go hungry would you? I can use my property as I see fit…right?
Or if you were a legitimate cattle farmer, would you want one of these places right next door to you when they have a TB outbreak, and it affects YOUR business? Or your hunting ground is right next door, and one of their CWD infected deer get out and your hunting area has to be depopulated? Remember, these guys historically have not been made held accountable for their screw ups…….YOU foot the bill.
My point is, I can agree with you to a certain point. But, when it affects others negatively, (which these places eventually will), that's where the line needs to be drawn on what a guy can do with his own property.
Maybe one thing people may not realize. If CWD is found in a facility, it SHOULD always be considered "contaminated". This is a prion, and no known way to get rid of it. It stays in the soils, and they have now found that it can be taken up by plants and ingested. Which means, if a CWD infected animal is brought in and turned loose on a property, then there is a chance that the others could be infected. So, just getting rid of the carrier animal, does nothing! Also, anything hauled in the trailer it was brought in with in the middle of the night, could stand the same chance.
