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Zombie Deer Disease Is Here. It’s as Bad as It Sounds | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)

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[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

From the article, bruh:

“This is a highly fatal and contagious disease that humans created” (said Rowledge).

“Chronic wasting disease first erupted at an experimental agricultural station in Colorado in 1967 where scientists were conducting feeding experiments on captive deer. Sheep infected with scrapie, another prion disease, served as the control group.”

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Allowed to spread and develop through bad legislative decisions around game ranching /=/ created or engineered by humans in a lab. Humans had a hand in allowing this disease to evolve and spread. But it was not engineered in a lab and ‘created’ by humans as ops comment seemed to indicate. Again Breh, that’s not what ‘first erupted’ means. I don’t disagree with Rowledge’s point that human decisions lead to the state we’re in now. But saying we created the disease is dangerously close to conspiracy theory misinformation that I believe it’s a bad idea to perpetuate. Also not a single other paper or article words the development like that. Rowledge has a vested interest in protecting wildlife and therefor has incentive to embellish in order to provoke action.