U.S. health researchers have reviewed 30 years of data from over 2 million hunters in Colorado and Wyoming, including thousands who hunted in CWD outbreak areas. According to a recent, excellent article by Lindsay Thomas Jr., the researchers saw no patterns of prion diseases (namely Creutzfeld-Jakob) above the normal background level in all Americans — which inherently is one in a million.
In short, your odds of getting CJD are already 1-in-a-million the day you’re born. But what are the odds if you eat venison from a CWD-endemic area for 30 years? Also 1-in-a-million.

The CDC, of course, still floats the sketchy: “We still recommend that hunters be careful not to eat CWD-infected deer” mantra in its literature. Of course, they’ll do that. They have to cover their @$$es somehow, right? I say wrong. Here are a couple reasons why:
1. Although we know junk food isn’t our best option for consumption, we don’t get the same scare-tactic propaganda in quite the same ways that we do with venison and CWD.
A large study published last summer in Neurology reported a link between consuming ultra-processed foods—such as soft drinks, potato chips and other salty snacks, deep-fried or packaged meats, bottled condiments, prepackaged sweets and breads, and flavored breakfast cereals—and a higher risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. For every 10 percent increase in ultra-processed foods consumed, the risk for Alzheimer’s rose 14 percent; for dementia overall, it increased 25 percent, according to the study. (www.brainandlife.org)
2. There are zero links between CWD and human health concerns. Zero. Yes, as I’ve stated many times before, each year U.S. farmers put 8 million pounds of paraquat (one of the most widely used herbicides) on corn, soy, peanuts, strawberries, grapes, etc. -and there is a STRONG link between it and Parkinson’s — yet NO ONE recommends not eating these foods. It’s generally accepted.
Enough, already, with the CWD hype. Should we ignore it? No. Should we wrench our hands? Also no.
What should we do? Put it in perspective, study it more and get on with our lives.