Think you have your facts a little wrong....chronic wasting disease in deer
and elk....not "mad cow"  second, the odds of contracting CJD through "mad
cow" here in the US of A are a whole lot higher than one in a
million...probably more like one-in-a-billion.

No documented cases of anyone dying from contracting CJD from consumption of
deer and/or elk........the situation definitely warrants attention and a
person needs to keep up with the news about the disease and any possible
transfer to humans through consumption but unfounded fear is misplaced.

> From: Hilary McClure <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:20:46 -0400
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: mad cow disease
>
> Carine Klein wrote:
>>
>> How dangerous do you consider the threat of "mad cow Disease"in Elk and
>> venison.These have been a staple of mine in the Paleo diet.
>
> Check out this article: http://www.mercola.com/2002/aug/28/mad_cow.htm
>
> It says you have a one-in-a-million chance of getting mad cow or CJD.
> But on the other hand, the three young men who have died of it *may*
> have all eaten elk from Colorado or Wyoming, and the disease is
> spreading rapidly eastward. Now in Wisconsin. It doesn't seem to be
> spreading in the way they think mad cow was spreading--by feeding ground
> up animals to livestock--because deer don't eat each other. They don't
> know how it's being transmitted. Where I live in Vermont, the Fish and
> Wildlife department says we have a very health deer population. But by
> the time I hear about it having spread as far east as Ohio I'm going to
> stay away from local venison, sadly.
>